Clyde Petersen

Clyde Petersen is an artist based in Seattle, working in film, animation, music, and installation. As a director, he is best known for Torrey Pines, an autobiographical stop-motion animated feature film, which toured the world with a live score.

He is the founding member of punk band Your Heart Breaks. Between 2012 and 2015, he hosted the web series Boating with Clyde, set on a small handmade boat in the Washington Park Arboretum. In 2016, he released Torrey Pines, a film he directed, wrote, and animated. Petersen is transgender and his art often explores queer themes.

Career In 1998, whilst living in Bellingham, Washington and studying documentary film production at Western Washington University, Petersen started the band Your Heart Breaks. The band has released multiple albums, either by self-releasing or through small independent labels, throughout the 2000s and 2010s.

Petersen worked with animation on commercials at a post-production house in Seattle. He has directed music videos (some of which were animated) for The Thermals, Laura Veirs, Deerhoof, and Thao & the Get Down Stay Down.

In early 2018, Petersen announced he was working on a documentary about the American drone metal band Earth.

Petersen's art installation work often uses cardboard and paper as medium, akin to his stop-motion animations. From late 2018 to spring 2019, he had an exhibition entitled Merch and Destroy at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington.

Filmography YearFilmCredited asNotes Director Producer Editor Animator 2010 The Unspeakable Documentary 2010 Last Night on Earth Documentary Short 2012 After Terminal Velocity Short 2012 13 Wayz to Get Hard Animated Short 2012 - 2015 Boating With Clyde Four Season Web Series 2016 Torrey Pines Animated Feature 2023 Even Hell has its Heroes Documentary about drone metal band Earth