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Bihttos "The Rebel"

ANIMATION FOR FILM | 2014

"One time in a bar very far away, my Dad saw the most beautiful woman he had ever seen"

Animation excerpt from "Bihttos" A Commission of the ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2014. Written, Directed and Produced by Elle-Maija Tailfeathers Executive Producers: Danis Goulet, Laura Good and Lori Lozinski Animation by Kunal Sen Animation Assistant: Tisha Deb Pillai Music by Jordan Wilson and Chad Neufeld Voice of Child: Maret Aile Gaup Beaska Mother: Mariel Belanger Father: Duncan Ollrenshaw

 

Commissioned by the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival for the Embargo Collective II, Bihttoš is an unconventional documentary that explores the complex relationship between a father and daughter. Through animation, re-enactments and family photos, Writer/Director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers delves into the dissolution of her parents' mythic love story and how past injustices have coloured her perception of love.

CREDITS

Animation Director: Kunal Sen
Animation Assistant: Tisha Deb Pillai

Written, Directed and Produced by Elle-Maija Tailfeathers
Executive Producers: Danis Goulet, Laura Good, Lori Lozinski
Music by Jordan Wilson and Chad Neufeld

Voice of Child: Maret Aile Gaup Beaska
Mother: Mariel Belanger
Father: Duncan Ollrenshaw


PROCESS