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When you don\u2019t know much about a film before going to see it, but you\u2019re told that it\u2019s clay animation, you might imagine stop-motion Wallace and Gromit-esque 3D characters, with slapstick movements and toothy smiles. But if the film you\u2019re seeing is Bahram Javahery\u2019s <\/span>Two Apples<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a>, it won\u2019t deliver on any of those expectations.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The film tells the touching story of a woman who immigrates to a new country, and what it means to only be able to take a little bit of your homeland with you while leaving the people you love behind.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But the way that story is told is what sets <\/span>Two Apples<\/span><\/i><\/b> apart. Each scene is hand-carved onto a flat slab of clay, animated through a series of bas-reliefs that transition in a remarkably fluid manner. Sometimes it\u2019s simply the characters going from point A to point B in a logical fashion; other times, the image is literally transforming into something new or, most impressively, showing us a spinning zoetrope. It\u2019s both mesmerizing and jaw-dropping.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n