Ryan Haché is a self-taught stop-motion animator and filmmaker working in soft clay from his home studio on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Gumbort is his solo practice.

His work moves between abstract morphic clay animation and character puppetry, and increasingly into the space where the two meet: puppets that soften, melt and reform mid-performance. The forms run from short loops to longer short films, each sculpted, built, lit and animated by hand.

Over the past decade he has grown the practice from improvised garage experiments into full-time work supported by eleven public arts grants, across solo and collaborative projects. As co-lead of Bronfree Films he made Tiny, winner of sixteen awards, and Mink, which received the Indigenous Language Production Award at imagineNATIVE. His films have screened at more than one hundred festivals internationally.

He is now pushing further into experimental morphic animation.