BC Premiere
Two One Two, by award-winning filmmaker Shira Avni, combines shimmering clay on glass animation with personal archives in this deeply intimate, experimental animated documentary. A love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, symbiotic relationship of parent and child, and two-headed monsters everywhere.
Les sommets du cinéma d’animation: Special Jury Prize; Berlin Short Film Festival: Best Short Animated Film; Perth International Women in Film Festival: Best Performance; Oregon Documentary Festival: Best Experimental Documentary
Canada
2023
English
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Credits
ANIM
Shira Avni
Original Music
Dan Loomer, Saltland
Director
Shira Avni
Shira Avni is an animation filmmaker and Associate Professor of Film Animation at Concordia University in Montreal. Her animated documentary films have won 34 international awards and screened in over 120 festivals worldwide. She is the proud recipient of a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award at Concordia. Her current research weaves documentary, animation, and memoir to address neurodiversity, motherhood, and interdependence through luminous clay-on-glass animation, back-lit to create the shimmering effect of stained glass in motion.
Filmography: Petra’s Poem (2012); Tying Your Own Shoes (2009); John and Michael (2005)
VIFF Short Forum
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1: Call your mother
Shorts from: Canada, China, UK.
2: Memory & mediation
Shorts from: Canada, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Syria, USA.
3: The peripheral core
Shorts from: Brazil, Canada, Japan, Norway, USA.
4: Um, womanhood
Shorts from: Canada, Columbia, France, Netherlands, Sweden.
5: The absurd & spiritual
Shorts from: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal.
6: City slickin’
Shorts from: Canada, France, Jordan, Spain, USA.
7: All day I dream about
Shorts from: Canada, India, Spain, Taiwan, USA.
8: Love and despair
Shorts from: China, France, Germany, Portugal, USA.
9: The scary one
Shorts from: Canada, Korea, Romania, USA.
10: The new socialism; ceasefire now!
Shorts from: Belgium, Canada, China, India, Myanmar, UK.
Short Fuse
An eye-opening collection of shorts exploring memories, experiences and relationships between friends, family, and across generations. From powwows in North America, to the rivers of Ethiopia and beyond, these shorts offer memorable stories on screen.