Hi! We’re Aron, Mina & M. from just wondering…

First of all, thank you for considering supporting us! We know just how many things need support right now, and are very grateful!

We, at just wondering…, have been working on making animated video-essays since 2016, aiming to put forward critical narratives and make academic knowledge more accessible. Increasingly, we’ve become more and more focused on social and environmental justice issues, antispeciesism, posthumanism and total liberation politics.

We’re three close friends from Eastern Europe (Romania), each with their own curiosities and expertise, working together to produce these videos. We’ve grown and learned a lot in these years, as well as worked countless hours on this project and collaborated with absolutely amazing writers and artists. Our short film “We fly, we crawl, we swim” got awarded at numerous film festivals and a few of our video-essays have been shown in art galleries and exhibitions.

So why do we need your support?

Making these animated video-essays is exciting, but also challenging. Almost every video we make takes hundreds of hours, from concept to research to writing, editing, recording, illustrating, animating, composing, and lastly making everything work together. Some video-essays can take a month or two to make, but other, more complex projects, can take more than half a year, like our short film did.

We’re very dedicated to doing this work and really believe in the power of audiovisual storytelling to get across critical ideas. In time, our films have gotten more specific, but we believe they are also stronger that way.

Your support would mean that we can keep doing this work without looking for more stable, and more boring, jobs. So thank you, a million times.

How often do we publish a film/video?

Well, wouldn’t we want to know too! It really depends on the project. Some videos/films can take about a month or two to complete, others take six or more. Sometimes it’s harder, sometimes it’s easier, but we’ll keep you updated with what’s going on.

Accessibility

All our films are open-access, published on our Youtube channel and on the website. They are primarily in English, and almost all of them are subtitled in English, Romanian, and a few other languages.

In the case of our video-essays from the playlist “dictionary of thinkers & concepts”, you can check their bibliography and read the full essay (video transcript) on our website, where illustrations are also published with alt-text descriptions.

More info

If you wanna know even more about us, you can check out our about page: https://justwondering.io/about/