Films : doubled up : synopses
animate! synopsis
Sam’s film is about her own attempt to impose order upon chaos in the context of recently becoming a mother of multiples (twin boys).
Acknowledging Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document , the work uses diagrams, layers and multiple perspectives to process chaotic information into a recognisable and functional structure. Sound by Prix Italia-winning Adam Goddard , Toronto.
one sentence synopsis
An autobiographical animated film about coping with twins.
short synopsis
A short autobiographical animated film about the chaos that a multiple pregnancy and birth can bring, and the filmmaker’s bewildered response.
long synopsis
A short autobiographical animated film about the chaos that a multiple pregnancy and birth can bring. Using multiple layers and perspectives from mother, artist, children and medical professionals, the fractured experience is unravelled and collaged to make a workable order from the pandemonium.
Created digitally, the film is an opulent and multi-faceted reworking of home video, children’s artwork and found objects.
