Chris Landreth

Chris Landreth’s animated short film, Ryan, was the toast of the 2004 film world, garnering worldwide recognition and dozens of awards (including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film). In this film, Landreth turns his attention to renowned animator Ryan Larkin, while challenging our notions of documentary and animation. Prior to this success, Landreth was involved in many other sides of the animated world.

He spent six years at Toronto-based Alias Wavefront, Landreth completed The End (1995) and Bingo (1998) – the former a work of “psycho-realism” (which Landreth describes as the visual appearance reflecting the characters’ “evolving pain, insanity, fear, mercy, shame and creativity”), and the latter a computer-animated adaptation of a live theatre performance. Not bad for a guy who decided on animation as a second career, after a stint in experimental research in Fluid Mechanics with the University of Illinois.