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
See more shorts in this series
Short Forum 1: The Scarier One
The return of scary: fear in all its chilling, suspenseful, and unsettling shades.
Short Forum 2: Anthropomaxx
Dogs, frogs, hogs, and more!
Short Forum 3: Workers of the World
The grind of the working class in a system that betrays its promises.
Short Forum 4: Immanence: A Life
You don’t have to look far; life is beautiful!
Short Forum 5: Somewhere Else
If space and time are pure perception, let’s build them differently.
Short Forum 6: Archive Lives!
Before anything becomes archival, it’s lived.
Short Forum 7: War at Home
Truly, no one is safe until everyone is safe.
Short Forum 8: Queer Magic
Do you believe in magic?
Short Forum 9: Big Time Sensuality
Explorations of desire and intimacy serve both pain and pleasure.
Short Forum 10: Are the Kids Alright?
The future kinda depends on it.