Career
Since 2000, Petersen has toured the world with his band Your Heart Breaks. He creates stop-motion animated films for bands including The Thermals, Kimya Dawson, Laura Veirs, Sean Nelson, Quasi, Deerhoof, Minor Alps and Thao with the Get Down Stay Down. Petersen is currently in production at his studio, Do it for the Girls Productions, working on his animated feature film Torrey Pines, due out in late 2016.