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Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan is a filmmaker, animator and visual artist based in Hastings. Behnan\u2019s\u00a0practice borrows\u00a0largely from\u00a0Assemblage; any item can be\u00a0utilised\u00a0in his work, and his\u00a0animation\u00a0style is\u00a0unpolished, complementing his hands-on approach to\u00a0filmmaking. His animated documentary A Taste for Music<\/em> (2022) was his graduation film from the Royal College of Art\u2019s Animation MA, and has shown widely, including at\u00a0Animafest\u00a0Zagreb, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and New Chitose Airport International Festival.\u00a0We asked\u00a0Jordan some questions about the development and production of the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Did you study animation prior to coming to the RCA?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, I studied at Middlesex University with Jonathan Hodgson, Osbert Parker and Robert Bradbrook.<\/p>\n And had you done any documentary work?<\/strong><\/p>\n I did an apprenticeship for about nine months in Barcelona, learning how to make documentaries. That was with a company called Otoxo. That was mostly handheld, live-action. But I felt I was more of an animator, really. At RCA I did an animated documentary elective with Bunny Schendler.<\/p>\n When did you begin to develop the idea for A Taste for Music?<\/strong><\/p>\n I think it existed in some way a couple of years after my dad died. I\u2019d been to India and Spain, and when I came back, I was living in my dad\u2019s house during lockdown. Being surrounded by his things was a big part of why I made the film. I submitted it as an idea to Screen South, but it never got taken. At that time, I was trying to do it more about the music side of things. My dad used to run a record label. In the second year at RCA we had to come to a tutorial with two film ideas, and most people persuaded me to do the one about my dad. Even then, it started out more on the music side, and then developed into something more about grief and loss and that kind of thing.<\/p>\n