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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 8 MAY 2022 8 ALMANAC My essentials INEZ KRISTINA 25, Visual Artist Inez Kristina wears many hats within the realms of visual art. She has illustrated the comic series Mibdul, and directed the short film Cut It Out in animation school, among other things. She is endlessly curious to try things out. 1 2 4 5 1. Book 3 2. Film 3. Internet/TV 4. Music 5. Place I recently watched Dog Day Afternoon (1975), which I 100% recommend. It's based on a true story - Al Pacino plays Sonny Wortzik (based on John Wojtowicz), a man who robs a bank with two ac- complices, to fund his lover's gender reassignment sur- gery. Their whole plan goes up in flames as they make some obvious mistakes and spend the movie negotiating with police over hostages. It's an excellent, well-paced movie which doesn't get bor- ing even though it's mostly set in the bank, and it's fun- ny and moving at the same time. Worth a watch. I want to share a YouTube vid- eo that really highlights how some animators go to excru- ciating lengths for their art and maybe could help shed some light on why it's a slow and laborious process. 'The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film' from the channel Atrocity Guide tells the story of Yuri Nor- stein and Francheska Yar- busova (who made the cult classic 'The Hedgehog in the Fog' in 1975) spend their lives arduously working on their stop-motion film 'The Overcoat' which has the re- cord for longest animation production of all time, and is still not finished! MY music taste is incredibly diverse and changes accord- ing to my mood, so I will give you the tongue-in-cheek re- sponse of 432hz music (yes, I know). I unironically listen to these sorts of ethereal sounds when I'm concentrating or falling asleep, two completely opposite states of mind. You could hardly call it music though (I do, however, sug- gest giving it a whirl when finding it hard to focus), and my Spotify tells me I spend most time listening to Khru- angbin and Alan Parsons Project, so there's that. I would love to take a stroll on Filfla. I know one can't go there, but I've always heard that it's full of unique species and I would love to sit under a parasol on Filfla and scruti- nise nature, sketching it. I've also only ever seen drone foot- age and people diving along the coast, no actual footage of people visiting the top, going 'on' it and documenting what it's like. If there are any scien- tists planning a research trip to Filfla, please take me with you! I'M currently reading 'How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy' by Jenny Odell, which I think reflects the state of mind I'm current- ly in. It's a sort of collection of observations about the nature of nothingness in relation to contemporary life and the in- ternet. The author's ramblings about birdwatching, art, an- ecdotes about the cynic Dio- genes, (and more) remind us about how beneficial it can be to take a step back from all the noise and appreciate being "unproductive", (and not in the 'self-care' pampering way). It's hard to describe, but it's an in- teresting read for people who feel like social media is a bit of a hole and want to reclaim something they feel they've lost through it.