Troubled by the death of her brother a young girl and her best friend run away from their convent school for an afternoon. After burying a dead bird the young girl realizes she must look inward for the will and the courage to carry on.
production, direction, animation, and story by Jenny Nirgends
stop-motion, digital video, CGI
January 2024, 6:33, color, sound, video
Completed at California Institute of the Arts.
Stills
Behind the scenes and production
cinematography Max Harper
music & sound design SQUASH and BISCUIT
character design Chiahui Yu
additional animators Cissi Efraimsson, Max Harper, Robert Andrew Jackson, Kangmin Kim, Rika Nakayama, Jack Nop
costume design Ashley Snyder
production design Danny Baxter, Jenny Nirgends, Yueyi Zhang