# animate! › Films › Jumping Joan by Petra Freeman › synopses

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, paint-on-plaster animation, rostrum camera, isolation, imagination, poetry film, filmmaker, animator

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**Jumping Joan** a film by Petra Freeman

1994, 7 min 39 sec

### animate! synopsis

With the dark resonance of the nursery rhyme from which it is drawn, this river story probes isolation and imagination, all painted directly onto hard plaster.

### short synopsis

This animated film was inspired by the old children’s rhyme;

“Here am I, little Jumping Joan,
When nobody’s with me, I’m all alone.”

**Jumping Joan** film, stills and other materials © Petra Freeman 1994