Animator Esther Cheung drove across Canada twice, covering 5,000 kilometres each way. She was “retracing childhood roadtrips while finding new paths to roam,” a journey that led to her multiple-award winning short film Detours Ahead.
A road trip traces a transition of grief to acceptance through valleys, junctions, and detours. It is a meditation on solitude, and articulates my shifting relationship with place – Esther Cheung about her film
Watch the eight-minute film on Esther Cheung’s website, or on YouTube, below.
Esther Cheung’s website, here.
Her Instagram, here.
An interview with Cheung at a Philadelphia film festival, here.
A long feature on the film at It’s Nice That, here.
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