# animate! › Films › Jumping Joan by Petra Freeman › tools & processes

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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

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#### process summary

The images were created by a painting on a hard plaster slab, directly under the rostrum camera.

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