Animation, Kafka, cats or dogs & identity — A chat with Jon Frickey, director of Cat Days

Wess Haubrich
5 min readMay 28, 2018
Still from CAT DAYS.

I caught up with German-American animator Jon Frickey to chat a bit about film-making, photographic and animation technique, animation, Kafka, the eternal question of cats or dogs and identity in his new animated short Cat Days, which has been making the film festival rounds recently.

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Wess Haubrich

Horror, crime, noir with a distinctly southwestern tinge. Staff writer, former contributing editor; occultist; anthropologist of symbols.