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Jonathan Riles (b.1997 in Columbus, Ohio) is an award-winning animation filmmaker, editor, and sound designer whose work surveys the abstractions of nostalgic memory. They combine stop-motion animation and digital graphics to create surreal kinetic portraits of the readymade.Riles grew up in the Hocking Hills of Appalachia, where they discovered their passion for theatre. After performing in various plays and musicals, Riles decided to take a more "behind the scenes'' approach to storytelling and eventually earned their BFA in Film Production at Syracuse University. Their thesis project earned a Bryan Buckley Production Grant, and they graduated Summa cum laude from their college.Shortly after graduating during COVID-19, Riles founded the media production house Shelluster Studios, where they continue to commission logos, design graphic animations, and supply end-credit title sequences for a variety of entities.Riles's videos have been screened at film festivals spanning 6 continents including the Mr. Vorky Film Festival in Ruma, Serbia, the LA Under the Stars Film festival in Los Angeles, California, and the Nightmares Film Festival in Columbus, Ohio. Their installation works have been featured in venues such as The Beeler Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, the Palettes of Keuka Art Tour in Hammondsport, New York, and the MACA Contemporary Art Museum in Alicante, Spain.Riles recently earned their MFA in Visual Arts at the Columbus College of Art & Design, where they researched the intersections between video art and outdoor recreational gaming.