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Illustration

I've been fortunate over the years to illustrate for some amazing filmmakers, authors, publishers, magazine editors, and various companies.

FILM
These illustrations supplement interview footage for documentary features with emotionally powerful content in a way only drawing and painting can. I’ve worked with film directors, producers, and animators, interpreting dialogue from interview footage and engaging in production brainstorms to transform concepts and narrative segments into evocative imagery and story sequences for various film and animation projects.

​WARNING: SOME IMAGES MAY BE GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING.
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They Played for Their Lives
​Selections from the film
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​Produced and directed by Nurit Jugend
Produced and co-directed by Aaron I. Butler
​Illustrations by Ari Binus
Edited by Aaron I. Butler and Andrew Kimery


They Played for Their Lives tells the stories of concentration camp survivors whose lives were both figuratively and literally saved by music during the Holocaust. The film has screened for PBS, Carnegie Hall’s 2021 Voice of Hope film festival, and is now available for streaming online.

Faithkeepers
Selections from the film
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Director: Micah Smith
Producer: Paula Kweskin
Research Director/Associate Producer: Zach Sicherman
Illustrations: Ari Binus

Senior Animator: Eli Veffer
​Junior Animator: Sivan Felder


Faithkeepers covers the violent persecution of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East.

When the Smoke Clears
Selections from the film
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Director, Producer, Writer: Rebecca Shore
Executive Director: Raphael Shore

Supervising Writer: Fernanda Rossi
Editor, Writer: Ryan Lifchitz
Illustrations: Ari Binus
Director of Photography: David Blumenfeld
Art Director: Alex Meyler

Animation Consultant: Eli Veffer
​Original Music: Nick Soole



When the Smoke Clears: A Story of Brotherhood, Resilience and Hope tells the true stories of young Israeli soldiers whose injuries leave them fighting for the strength to live. Making breakthroughs and finding meaning by reaching out to those in need, they discover that what didn’t kill them really did make them stronger.The film shares the accounts of Gil, Ofer, and Elad – young war veterans whose unthinkable battle experiences leave them with life-altering mental and physical scars. Returning to society, their trauma disconnects them from all they once valued, turning their lives upside down.

When all seems lost, a revolutionary idea gives them the hope, courage, tools and community to survive, and to embrace their identities as heroes both on and off the battlefield. Banding together in a family of wounded soldiers, they learn to face their obstacles together and discover that in conquering their pain, they might have more to offer than ever before.

​When the Smoke Clears follows this band of brothers during the darkest times of their lives, and proves that massive growth and healing can come through giving to others, transforming them into heroes in their own lives and in the lives of those around them.

WINNER OF BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, GI Film Festival San Diego
Available for streaming in select geographic locations through Amazon Prime
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Selections from the following titles:
• "Hayyim’s Ghost" By Eric Kimmel (Pitspopany Press)
• "The Littlest Tree" By Sylvia Rouss (Pitspopany Press)
• “Izzy Hagbah” By J.J. Gross (Pitspopany Press)
• "Around the Shabbos Table" by Seryl Berman (Hachai Publishing)
• "King David & Akavish the Spider" By Sylvia Rouss (Gefen Publishing)

"ONE-OFFS"
Older stuff, personal project stuff, etc.
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