Irina Rubina – Crazy about Jazz

Window Projections | Musical animated films on our windows

Window projections at the Goethe-Institut Montreal
June 26 to August 10, 2025 | from sunset to 2 a.m.

In collaboration with the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, we are presenting two musical video works by the animation artist Irina Rubina on our windows:

MILES DAVIS – WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT 
Animated Music Video, 2022
Regie & Design: Irina Rubina
Coloring: Michelle Brand, Veronica Solomon, Anita Gill, Luca Tóth, Irina Rubina
Script & Editing: Iris Maier
Compositing: Irina Rubina
Produced by Noah Schulman / Sony Music Entertainment & iraru.filme

Inspired by original drawings by Miles Davis, director Irina Rubina creates a semi-abstract nightwalking fantasy to a previously unreleased piece by Miles Davis from 1982-1985 – his interpretation of Tina Turner’s WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT.

JAZZ-ORGIE
Animated Short Film, 2015
Director & Animation: Irina Rubina
Production: Irina Rubina, Ghaith Al-Adwan
Assistant director: Christiane Goppert
Music: Emanuel Hauptmann
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Dots, lines, surfaces and shapes set themselves in motion and sink into a choreographic world of their own. In the intoxication of touch, they engage with jazz sounds in a play of colors and shapes that ends with an absolute explosion.

IRINA RUBINA

Irina Rubina is an animation filmmaker and artistic professor for the MA Animation at the HSLU, Lucerne. With her Stuttgart-based company iraru.films, she produces and directs short films, music videos and hybrid & collaborative projects that explore the boundaries between animation, film, stage performance, music and dance. She studied animation and documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and GOBELINS, l’école de l’image. 2022 she obtained a German equivalent of a PhD in-practice degree in animation directing at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.
Irina’s films have been widely screened at international film festivals, — including Annecy, DOK Leipzig, Animafest Zagreb, ITFS Stuttgart, Ottawa, Monstra Lisboa, Ars Electronica, LIAF, and interfilm Berlin — and have received numerous awards.
She is also active as a member of selection committees and juries at various festivals. Since 2021 she is a board member of the ASIFA Germany Chapter.