Knight Made in MIA Award (Short Film)
In Karla Caprali's breathtaking animated short film, a Hispanic poet comes face to face with Lady Death, who pursues him everywhere he goes, heightening his anxiety that death is imminent. This anxiety renders him unable to discern life from death until he succumbs to the inevitable. He finally finds the light by accepting his fate.
Karla Caprali is an artist, illustrator, and animator born and raised in Brazil. Since the early 2000s, she has been creating mixed-media installations, textile art, handcrafted short animation films, and music videos in collaboration with local and international musicians and poets. She has shown her work in Brazil, the United States, Norway, Sweden, and France.
Supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.