Fixing Luka
11 min / animation / 2011 / Scotland
filmmaker: Jessica Ashman
Lucy thinks her brother, Luka, is broken. His obsessive, meticulous, infuriating arrangements of sugar cubes and thimbles prove it. Lucy thinks he should be fixed, but not in the way she imagines… A stop-motion short, inspired from the filmmaker’s experiences of growing up with a younger brother with autism.
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