14 DAY TRIAL // Welsh filmmaker Gemma Green-Hope has created a beautiful stop-motion video as a touching tribute to her recently deceased grandmother.
When her grandma Elizabeth passed away in 2010, Gemma inherited some of her possessions, but she didn't really know what to do with all those items that were still bearing her prints.
“I inherited some of her clothes to wear, books to read, a bicycle to ride. But how do you make sense of all the other things that someone leaves behind, the things nobody sees, boxes full of photographs, and bits of string?” the animator wrote on Vimeo.
The talented artist found a way to keep her grandmother alive and give people a glimpse into her life by incorporating her belongings into a touching memorial, titled Gan-Gan. In the short film, included below, Gemma paints a portrait of her grandmother using books, clothes, jewelry, photos and many other things that Elizabeth gathered throughout the years.
Her unique life story is presented in an emotional clip that shows not only material things, but also part of her personality, beliefs and habits.
“My grandmother Elizabeth (or Gan-Gan as I called her) was a force of nature; she was wonderful. As a child she seemed to me like a visitor from another time or place,” Gemma adds.
Gan-Gan from Gemma Green-Hope on Vimeo.