Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni continues her deeply personal animated documentary journey to explore motherhood, fragmentation, neurodiversity, trauma, and healing through the infinitely laborious, handcrafted frame-by-frame filmmaking process. Two-One-Two mixes archival video, sound recordings, experimental, shimmering clay on glass, under-camera, and rotoscoping animation in this intimate, experimental animated documentary love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, and and two headed monsters everywhere.
Animated Short Film
Ghost of the Dark Path
During the White Terror era, Shi Shuifang, a woman who advocated ideas bravely in the underground political organization, seemed to be a light that illuminated the times. The agent of the surveillance organization was influenced by Shi Shuifang and thus fell in love with her. However, under all kinds of unfavorable circumstances, he could only watch her hopelessly suffer through various injuries.
IN HALF
Through a child's imagination it tells the journey of a man who after falling prey to his fears, he must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be confronted with his own fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions for the future to discover his self-identity.
SUPERTRAMP
A stray puppy gets rescued by a sweet little girl, finally finding a family to live with. But Destiny has something else in store for the dog, who ends up on the streets once again.
The Sprayer
In the land occupied with the sprayers army, no one has the right to grow any kind of plants either in public or private.
So many of the people and soldiers do not even know how dose a plant grows or look like, until one day one of the soldiers finds a seed buried deep down in the dust and his curiosity is just the beginning of something extraordinary, something big, something revolutionary .
Footprints In The Forest
Iman, a rare Sumatran rhino, embarks on a journey through Borneo's rainforest after her mother's loss to poachers. Alone but aided by Piu-Piu, a talkative bird, she faces diverse wildlife and a relentless clouded leopard. Using her mother's spirit, Iman outsmarts the predator. Despite triumph, she feels lost until guided by a wise orangutan to rhino footprints, restoring hope. The film concludes as Iman follows her kind's footprints into an uncertain but promising future.