Invisible Manners (2021)

An animated short film by Lingxi Zhang, which was written and directed by John Lee Taggart and developed closely with the rare disease community in order to illustrate the many emotions and challenges an individual with an invisible condition can face on a daily basis. By using a mixture of animation, photography, and narrated lines read by stars from both outside and inside of the community, this project hopes to raise awareness of both Niemann-Pick disease(s) and invisible conditions more broadly...as "not all that you can see, is everything that is there"...and there are far more similarities than differences when it comes to the lived experiences of those affected by rare, genetic and/or invisible conditions.