Without Wings

Director/Animator/Producer/Editor: Jo Meuris

Synopsis:

A celebration of the human body in motion. The movements of dancers, traceurs, and acrobats are woven together in a symphony of animated figures that rejoices in the ability to defy gravity.

Biography:

Jo Meuris holds a BFA in Animation from Concordia University (received in 1998) and an MFA in Film and Television from University of California, Los Angeles (received in 2010). She has worked for several years in the Montreal animation industry, most of her time having been spent at the National Film Board of Canada, where she first worked as an animator and then directed two films of her own (An Aqueous Solution, completed in 2003, and multi-award winning film The Girl Who Hated Books, completed in 2006). Her last film, PK-Granny (completed in 2007), was screened internationally at over fifty festivals and won several awards, including Best Animation at the Beverly Hills Short Film Festival in 2008 and Best Animated Film at the Worldwide Movement Film Festival in 2009.