The Florestine Collection (2011)

Experimental Animator Helen Hill found more than 100 handmade dresses in a trash pile on one Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans She set out to make a film about the dressmaker an AfricanAmerican seamstress who had recently passed away The dresses and much of the film footage were later flooddamaged by Hurricane Katrina while Helen was still working on the film Helen was murdered in a home invasion in New Orleans in 2007 Her husband Paul Gailiunas has completed the film which includes Helens original silhouette cutout and puppet animation as well as flooddamaged and restored home movies