Holy Afterbirth
short
Directed by Alesandra Caroline
Holy Afterbirth is an experiment in absurdist horror. A person holds many versions inside themself. Religious and patriarchal ideals imbed arbitrary rules. The mind tries to make sense of pain through nightmare. Thoughts act as ghosts, haunting reality. Like memory, the film degrades, distorts, and reimagines a moment in time. Interweaving live action, stop-motion and rotoscope animation, Holy Afterbirth captures the breakdown where divisions between real and imagined dissolve. At its heart, this mirrors the deconstruction and transformation in queer lives. Queer bodies are villainized by church and state, which are allied in the current nationalist regime. Yet, our bodies remain precious.
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