Petra Zlo, Reviewed

There is a brief review of the first short animation done by Petra Zlonoga, one of my favorite people in the world (no exaggeration) on the Beautiful Decay website for August 6th. My friends and I met P-Zlo and her friends in Sarajevo in 2005, where they were visiting from Zagreb. We all kind of hit it off and have more or less stayed in touch the past few years. Last summer, I had the great pleasure of hanging out with Petra and some of her friends in Berlin, and had a really great time. I think I was a bit cranky from having my money stolen while still in Paris, and having been in Paris all summer, which can in fact make one cranky, but that Berlin trip was definitely one to remember, and I hope I don’t have to wait another 4 years to hear P’s particularly “Balkanic” brand of snark again. Anyway, I’ve always really admired her illustrations, and there is a link to her blog in the BD article too, which you should definitely check out. She is now attending animation school in Zagrab, so hopefully there’ll be some more cartoons forthcoming. I’m still trying to understand what it meant when we saw the fox in the middle of the night in Kreuzberg (beyond simply that foxes live in Kreuzberg). There is a chance I never will, which would, in fact, fit the mood of our quasi-mystical obsession with foxes last year.