Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Tying Your Own Shoes

A year ago I had the privilege of working on Shira Avni's animated documentary, Tying Your Own Shoes, a film about the lives of 4 adult artists with Down Syndrome. The film blends both animation based on the artists' drawings, but also animation created by the artists' themselves. I was inspired, to say the least.

I'm so pleased that the film premiered at the DOK Leipzig Festival, and even happier to say that it took home a Golden Dove, the grand prize for best short documentary. Congratulations Shira!

Anyways, here is a small clip of animation that I did, based off a drawing by Ninah, one of the artists. Again, do check out the film's website and I will post when I hear of a screening!

Tying Your Own Shoes - clip from lillian chan on Vimeo.

5 comments:

Bianca Siercke said...

Hi Lilian :D
This seems like a really amazing project! Love the animation, it has such a great feel to it. Please keep us updated about the film!

Hope your doing well :). It was great to see you this summer!

ROB RISEK said...

NICE JOB! hi lill :(

how are things going and whacha been up to?
and why are you communicating through the blog and not e-mail like normal people?

orange said...

OHHH LIL..best thing EVER !!!! :)

Anonymous said...

Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!

GB Tran said...

This really tugs at the heart, Lillian. When do we get to see/hear more about your current projects?!