there is no truth or lie. it all depends on the glass through which you spy.
THE LINE is a third-year animation film created in requisite to the MFA thesis program at Rochester Institute of Technology, and completed during the spring semester of 2019.
The story revolves around Espe, a child born with skin made out of mirror. With the despairingly-sweet naiveté of a child, Espe yearns for a world beyond his own enclosed home in a coastal village, past the vast horizon line where the ocean meets the sky. Unfortunately, every person around Espe has a different idea about what he should aspire to be in life; a side effect of being able to see only their own reflections when they look upon the mirror child.
I wanted to delve deeper into my understanding of the themes of individuality, freedom of thought, fragility of ego and the unreliability of ‘truth’, as seen through the eyes of a child.
advisor: peter murphey
sound designer: creighton yanchar
composer: justin levine
available online after it's festival run ends in 2021.