Overview
- Veteran animator Malcon Pierce translates a couple’s journey through loss and hope into an abstract, cosmic narrative told without dialogue.
- Ice dancers and choreographers Katherine Hill and Ben Agosto shaped the film’s movement language, guiding sequences that convey intimacy and tension.
- Composer Haim Mazar scored the short with a 69-piece orchestra, blending ‘90s synth textures with full strings and horns to track shifting emotions.
- Disney Animation’s Jennifer Lee encouraged early development, and artist Paul Felix advanced the visual concept with a suite of exploratory paintings.
- Symbolic motifs, including Kintsugi and star imagery linked to Pierce’s late son Cooper, underscore the film’s theme of honoring grief rather than fixing it.