Black Tar Road
An award-winning and beautifully animated journey into the creative world of Veronika Raila. As a child her IQ tested as zero. She now creates as a poet and cross-platform artist. Veronika Raila has l…
Black Tar Road
An award-winning and beautifully animated journey into the creative world of Veronika Raila. As a child her IQ tested as zero. She now creates as a poet and cross-platform artist. Veronika Raila has lived with Asperger syndrome and physical disabilities since her childhood, using assisted communication to express her thoughts. In Sandgirl, the young author invites you on a subtle and poetic journey inside the secret, captivating creative world of her heightened imagination, expressed through beautiful sand art work and animation. Weaved throughout the film is Raila's shared communication with director and fellow screenwriter Mark Michel, illustrating the love, care and trust shared between Raila and her family, and giving the audience a rare glimpse of her inner world and thoughts. What does it mean to be a prisoner of your own body and invisible? SANDGIRL takes us into the unique world of experiences and life of Veronika Raila, a young autistic girl, hypersensitive and seriously disabled from birth. Veronika Raila knows what it feels like not to be seen as a person. Today Raila publishes prose and poems and studies literature. Together with director Mark Michel she reviews her own life in this film. The combination of her writings and thoughts with delicately filmed everyday observation, poetic nature shots and artist Anne Loeper's fleeting but powerful sand animation coalesce into an essay about freedom and perception. SANDGIRL, however, is more than the sequel to the award-winning short film VERONIKA which Mark Michel made about Raila in 2011. This time Veronika is not just a protagonist but a creative partner whose trenchant texts carry the film and who frequently makes detailed suggestions about how to illustrate her interior world. In a profound but sometimes also eminently funny dialogue with Mark Michel she finally becomes the tour guide of her own universe of sand, music and words.
Black Tar Road
Crime,Drama,Romance
Film Details
An award-winning and beautifully animated journey into the creative world of Veronika Raila. As a child her IQ tested as zero. She now creates as a poet and cross-platform artist.
Veronika Raila has lived with Asperger syndrome and physical disabilities since her childhood, using assisted communication to express her thoughts. In Sandgirl, the young author invites you on a subtle and poetic journey inside the secret, captivating creative world of her heightened imagination, expressed through beautiful sand art work and animation. Weaved throughout the film is Raila's shared communication with director and fellow screenwriter Mark Michel, illustrating the love, care and trust shared between Raila and her family, and giving the audience a rare glimpse of her inner world and thoughts.
What does it mean to be a prisoner of your own body and invisible? SANDGIRL takes us into the unique world of experiences and life of Veronika Raila, a young autistic girl, hypersensitive and seriously disabled from birth. Veronika Raila knows what it feels like not to be seen as a person. Today Raila publishes prose and poems and studies literature.
Together with director Mark Michel she reviews her own life in this film. The combination of her writings and thoughts with delicately filmed everyday observation, poetic nature shots and artist Anne Loeper's fleeting but powerful sand animation coalesce into an essay about freedom and perception. SANDGIRL, however, is more than the sequel to the award-winning short film VERONIKA which Mark Michel made about Raila in 2011.
This time Veronika is not just a protagonist but a creative partner whose trenchant texts carry the film and who frequently makes detailed suggestions about how to illustrate her interior world. In a profound but sometimes also eminently funny dialogue with Mark Michel she finally becomes the tour guide of her own universe of sand, music and words..