"2"
This film is a love non-story. It begins with a kiss between a boy and a girl, drawn in a childlike manner, and metmorphoses into a Leonardo daVinci sketch representing an old and young man. Their tongues entwine as they dissipate into abstract waves and circles, which then form words.
Four French words cycle in opposition. These words then combine with other french words formed from tiny circles, as they translate one by one into English, to form an excerpt from a text.
The Finnish translation is spoken in the soundtrack. Selected words then emerge in the rhythm of a heartbeat, until the words 'people/people' metmorphose into images of people interacting.
The film switches to negative and plays backwards.
"2" won first prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in Teletoon's Continuing Education Competition.
Anderson began the film while at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. She each frame using black ink on paper, which she then photocopied, then filmed each frame onto 16mm film using an Oxberry camera at the Quickdraw Animation Society.