The film was conceived loosely as a live action musical animation, reminiscent of the system used in music animation software such as Stephen Malinowski’s Music Animation Machine.

Domestic and pertinent objects, common in the still life genre, were sourced and used within a structure mostly defined by the music. By Optical Arts

Still Life is a celebration of the beauty of movement and human closeness at a time when the world stood still and we were forced to stay apart. By Serafima Serafimova

We rarely see portrayals of the diverse, ordinary lives of people who have Down syndrome (unless we are connected to someone who has it). Much of what we hear instead is based off a medical narrative. By Alex Widdowson