The Sacred Society

Benny Zelkowicz is an animator (The LEGO Movie, Robot Chicken, The Simpsons), voice actor (Lunar Jim on BBC/CBC), and novelist (The Books of Ore Trilogy published by Disney-Hyperion). He studied with Jules Engel, Raimund Krumme, and Suzan Pitt at CalArts, graduating with an MFA in Experimental Animation in 2002. His sand-animated film, “The ErlKing” premiered at Lincoln Center as part of the New York Film Festival, went on to screen at more than forty festivals including Sundance, Annecy, Hiroshima, and Zagreb, and was a finalist for the Student Academy Awards. He wrote and illustrated the picture book, “The Golem’s Gift”, which he adapted into a musical for the Northwest Children’s Theater in Portland, OR. He has also published two neuroscience papers in a major international journal and once parallel parked a 22-foot lime green fire truck. He currently lives in Columbus and teaches animation at the Ohio State University.