Laura Reynolds
A film about a girl's descent to madness.
Mixing experimental and narrative film techniques allowed me to work within a pipeline unique to this project.
I wanted to create a film that felt like a natural stream of consciousness with a palpable energy throughout. I started this process by experimenting with the character's shape, animated movement and background texture, allowing this work to influence and inform what the final film would become. I used fragments of quotes from family, friends and Sylvia Plath in order to create a structural narrative thread for the film and it's audience.
I wanted to use this film to push my style, animation and creative process to make something stylistically different to my previous projects. By leaning into experimentation, abstraction and stylized animation and editing, the film revealed itself to me throughout this production.
This process challenged me while simultaneously allowing me to continuously create and experiment throughout the year, resulting in a unique and exciting film.
