Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup

2021

A documentary about quarantine dreams. I Co-directed with Meghan McDonough and Stevie Borrello.

credits

Directors: Stevie Borrello, Marcie LaCerte, and Meghan McDonough
Composer: Hinako Omori
Animator: Marcie LaCerte
Editors: Meghan McDonough and Stevie Borrello
Sound Mixer and Designer: Sam Beneitone
Executive Producer, The New Yorker: Soo-Jeong Kang
Supervising Producer, The New Yorker: Sara Joe Wolansky
Senior Editor, The New Yorker: Brian Redondo

VOICES
Roger Argueta
Liz Brinks
Deirdre Barrett
Victoria Chu
Lisa Crawford
Cecilia Giancola
Emma Griffin
Asha Harvey
Carl Kelley
Eden Min
Isabelle Niu
Katie Reilly
Natasha D. Smaill
Cal Thompson
Deepaprabha U.
JinJin Xu

SPECIAL THANKS
Yush Bandi
Katie Hanson
Brian Reinken
Wa Sappakijjanon
Florencia Shanly
Zara Haghpanah-Shirwan
Jacob Templin
Preeti Varathan

process

How we made this film

press

It's Nice That, Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup documents 20 people’s weird pandemic dreams, 2021

CBC Radio, Why this artist animated people's weird pandemic dreams, 2021

Director's Notes, Take a Surreal Trip Through Our Collective COVID-19 Dreams in Intimate Animation ‘Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup’, 2021

The New Yorker, The Mysteries and Motifs of Pandemic Dreams, 2021

Stash Media, “Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup” or How I Learned to Love Dreaming During COVID, 2021

Zippy Frames, Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup by Meghan McDonough, Stevie Borrello and Marcie LaCerte, 2021

screenings

Riverrun Film Festival, 2022