Tying Your Own Shoes / written and directed by Shira Avni ; producer, Michael Fukushima.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Avni, Shira, director.

Fukushima, Michael, producer.

National Film Board of Canada, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Down syndrome patients as artists.

Down syndrome--Patients.

Down syndrome.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Short films.

Animated films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 minutes)

Other Title:

En laçant mes souliers

Place of Publication:

[Montreal, Quebec] : National Film Board of Canada, 2009.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Tying Your Own Shoes is an intimate glimpse into the exceptional mindsets and emotional lives of four adult artists with Down Syndrome. An artful, four-way essay about ability, this animated documentary explores how it feels to be a little bit unusual. In her follow-up to her award-winning film, John and Michael, filmmaker Shira Avni pursues a deeper understanding of esteem and disability by inviting Petra, Matthew, Daninah, and Katherine to consider their pasts, relationships, and ambitions. Tying Your Own Shoes is a hybrid of auteur documentary and animation cinema, two forms with which The National Film Board of Canada has developed a world-renowned expertise over the past 70 years.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 15, 2016).

OCLC:

820118368