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    Blind Vaysha | Il cieco Vaysha

    Theodore Ushev
    Canada | 2016 | 8’13 v.o. sott. ITA

    The story of Vaysha, a young girl born with one green eye and one brown eye. But colour isn’t the only thing that’s different about Vaysha’s gaze. While her left eye sees only the past; her right sees only the future. Like a terrible curse, Vaysha’s split vision prevents her from inhabiting the present.

    Direction: Theodore Ushev
    Animation: Theodore Ushev
    Screenplay: Georgi Gospodinov, Theodore UShev
    Voice: Caroline Dhavernas
    Sound Design: Olivier Calvert
    Foley: Lise Wedlock
    Foley Recording: Geoffrey Mitchell
    Re-Recording: Serge Boivin
    Music: Nikola Gruev

    Theodore Ushev

    Theodore Ushev (1968, Kyustendil, Bulgaria) first made a name as a poster and graphic designer, before moving to Montreal in 1999. Famous all over the world for his powerful personal style reflecting numerous influences from the visual arts and literature. He makes various mediums collide – painting, collage, photography, live-action film, animation film – creating a polymorphous opus that’s an inspiration for many artists today. In the past 15 years, he has worked for the National Film Board of Canada. His creative biography contains more than 15 films, which brought him over 200 international awards, including an Oscar nomination for best animated short film for Blind Vaysha in 2017 and making it into the short list for the same award for The Physics of Sorrow in 2019. The Physics of Sorrow won the Grand Prize – Crystal of Annecy in 2020, where he has won four times during his career. Phi 1.618 (2022), a dystopian adventure film, is his first live-action feature film.