Homebird
Struggling to make it in a big city, a young artist finds herself retreating into the rose-tinted memories of the village she left behind.
*Italian premiere
Homebird,
by Ewa Smyk,
UK 2021,
10’
Direction
Ewa is an animation director with a background in graphic design and illustration, who likes to tell bitter-sweet stories that explore cultural identity and memory, using textured, analogue animation techniques. Her film Homebird has been created entirely in a paint-on-cel technique, using thousands of marker pens, paint tubes, and sheets of acetate.