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.
Regina Premiere
Olga’s Eyes (Les yeux d’Olga)
Olga, a music-loving octogenarian, is tired of killing humans. Could it be the vampire blues? For her daughter Simone, she’s just being picky! Olga is placed in a care home where she can deal with those “who have one foot in the grave”…
Culture Shock
Fighting to fit in, Joey ends up defacing artwork that her own cousin had created in the city. How was she to know? She doesn’t know all of her Mom’s relatives. Sent off to Culture Camp to face the consequences on her mom's home settlement, the act of rebellion isn’t so cool as Joey struggles to fit in. What’s worse, the artist’s sister Jay is on the hunt for whoever dishonoured their family and community.
Minus Plus Multiply
With containers as a motif and a metaphor for a safe place, the story surrounds the protagonist's self-searching and healing journey, exploring the relationship between emotion and space. The film attempts to construct a poetic narrative and psychological self-portraits through experimentation in 2D animation, stop-motion, and sound. By applying pottery and clay, it reflects sensibility, fragility, and fragmentation of identity.
Our Last Day As Kids
A coming-of-age story set in the mid-2000s underground music scene, that follows quiet and naive punk, Casey, as he tries to piece together the broken memories recorded on his camcorder.
Bird Drone
A heartfelt story of unrequited love explored through a lonely seagull struggling to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life.