Chris Landreth, Ryan, 2002

This fourteen minute animation is about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who had lived on skid row in Montreal as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. The distorted and disembodied appearance of the film’s characters is based on Landreth’s use of psychological realism to portray emotion visually. Trauma and emotional scars are visible as colours wrapping around the face, cavities in the head and exaggerated facial features.