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Ryan (film)

Ryan
The image depicts the cover of the DVD release of the film. The bottom has a solid brown background with the stylized text 'Ryan' printed above some credits. The top is a still image from the film with a blurred grey background and a portrait of Ryan Larkin, wearing his circular-frame glasses, in the distorted and disembodied style of the film, in which his left cheek, right eye, and most of the right side of his face are missing, enabling the viewer to see the background.
DVD cover
Directed by Chris Landreth
Produced by Steven Hoban
Mark Smith
Marcy Page
Written by Chris Landreth
Starring Ryan Larkin
Chris Landreth
Felicity Fanjoy
Derek Lamb
Music by Fergus Marsh
Michael White
Edited by Allan Code
Distributed by National Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • 2004 (2004)
Running time
 13 min 54 sec
Country Canada
Language English

Ryan is a 2004 animated documentary created and directed by Chris Landreth about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who had lived on skid row in Montreal as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. Landreth's chance meeting with Larkin in 2000 inspired him to develop the film, which took 18 months to complete. It was co-produced by Copper Heart Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and its creation and development is the subject of the NFB documentary Alter Egos. The film incorporated material from archive sources, particularly Larkin's works at the NFB.

The film is an animated interpretation of an interview of Larkin by Landreth, and includes interviews with Larkin's previous partner and coworkers, as well as Landreth. Development of the characters was partially inspired by the plastinated human bodies of the Body Worlds exhibition. The distorted and disembodied appearance of the film's characters is based on Landreth's use of psychological realism to portray emotion visually, and expression is modelled by use of straight ahead animation. The animation was created at the Animation Arts Centre of Seneca College in Toronto. Some of the animation was based on cords, mathematical equations modelling the physical properties of curves and used to animate filamentous objects in the film. The visual effects of the film has been described by reviewers and film critics as difficult to describe and having a distinctive visceral style.

Ryan won over 60 awards, including the 2004 Academy Award for Animated Short Film and the 25th Genie Award for Best Animated Short. It was presented and won awards at many film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, and Worldwide Short Film Festival. It also won Jury awards at SIGGRAPH and the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and honourable mention at the Sundance Film Festival.


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