Nisan Denizci
Nisan Denizci was born in Istanbul in 1997. She went to the Italian High School and then completed her undergraduate degree in the film department of the New York School of Visual Arts (SVA). Although her concentration was on cinematography, she focused on animation because of her lifelong obsession with stop-motion. (She knows quite a few lines from The Nightmare Before Christmas by heart.) Following college, she worked as an independent animation artist for the documentary series “99 Snapshots”. After returning to Istanbul in 2021, she started working at Depo Film as an assistant producer, where she made creative and technical contributions to many commercial films from pre- to post-production stages. In 2022, well, you may have read about the horse; she left her job to bring her dream project to life. Currently, she continues her career as a freelance director, producer, and animation artist.
Nisan is very allergic to cats,
but she can't live without one.
Yasemin Orhan
Yasemin Orhan was also born in Istanbul in 1995. After completing her high school education at Istanbul Saint Joseph High School, she graduated from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film/Animation/Video. While in school, she began working professionally as a director, animator, and production assistant in various projects to figure out what she should do with her life. In 2019, she reached out to Signe Baumane and joined the production team of “My Love Affair With Marriage” as a set painter. After working in animation for a couple of years, she went back to school at Bergen Art Academy for a master's in art. She has been making films, prints, friends, hand creams, and cringy jokes. She lives and works in Bergen (aside from this project) as an independent animator, set designer, and artist. ​
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​Yasemin is a massive introvert,
but she can't go a day without socializing.
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ABOUT
Backstory
The story began a long time ago when Nisan and her friend Dasha were joking but also being dead serious about making a stop-motion porn. Each was relieved to find out they were not the only ones who fantasized about this. There was no other option but to sit down together and scribble the first episode while still in college. That’s how the concept came to be.
As it happens sometimes, when Nisan and Dasha were finishing school, the pandemic broke out, and you can guess what happened next. Nisan ran out of options and returned to her home country, where she found a job as an assistant producer. Meanwhile, Dacha got super busy after getting a position at a huge company. So the dream project was put on the shelf.
In 2021, while at work, Nisan realized that the 3-day wage of a horse on the film set was higher than her monthly salary. It felt like a good enough reason to quit her job eventually and dedicate more time to making the sets and puppets of To Catch A Nut. The next year, she moved to her sister’s room because her bedroom evolved into a full-on studio. As the project revived, so did the initial story. While fabricating, she added a few things here and there, took out some scenes, brought new characters, and wrote more puns.
By the fall of 2023, Nisan shot the first scene with the sleazy cockroaches. This is when Yasemin comes into the picture. She was on a break from school due to an existential crisis triggered by an occupational injury. The two met up, observed seagulls having a debate over the water quality of the newly renovated modern museum of Istanbul, and decided to collaborate. Yasemin arrived at Nisan’s with a backpack, thinking she would stay for two weeks. Well, animation takes time. In fact, it eats and also shits time. So the two weeks ended up being fifteen, then twenty, and by now, we lost count. We have been working on and off on this project due to school, work, life and love ever since then.
We are a tiny independent team delivering a labor of love. Things are moving slowly. That said, our aim is to finish all the shooting and go into post-production in March 2026. We are getting there, frame by frame and coffee cup by coffee cup. Currently, we are past the halfway point and are finally animating the sex scenes, the hardest ones… pun intended. Which makes us see once again how much ugly and boring porn there is in the world, because for a banger animation we need to take actual visual reference to recreate the movement. Is that a motivation boost or a kill? We don’t care, we are here to offer something else; the point of view of a woman inspired by our and many of our friends' stories.
