another gorgeous frameline short

John and Michael (2004, 10 mins)
The story of a relationship between two men with Down's Syndrome.

"It's a bit like having to do 10,000 oil paintings for 10 minutes of film. I never thought I'd have the patience for something like that." That's how Shira Avni describes working with the medium she's chosen for her current film, John and Michael, in which clay is spread thinly on Plexiglas and lit from behind.

Working on a light table, Avni shapes the clay onto the glass to create her scene, takes a shot with the camera, paints the scene again with a slight change and then takes the next shot. There's no going back. The results are, as she describes it, "stained glass in motion."