Played at the December 2016 Best of Family/Animation FEEDBACK Film Festival.
BIRTH WEAVING LIFE, 6min., Japan, Animation/Documentary
Directed by Arisa Wakami
This is a documentary animation on the very beginning and the mystery of life, told from the point of view of a mother.
REVIEW by Kierston Drier:
Welcome to the incredibly personal stories of three women as they recount the birth of their children. Each tale exquisitely told from a unique voice and animated differently, Birth-Weaving Life will make you laugh and hit you right in the “feels” with it’s honest emotional portrayal of new parenthood being a time of panic, pain and fear, but also utter joy.
Each story is set against simple artistry that nevertheless creates effective storytelling, masking the intimacy of childbirth with the colorful visual metaphor. Waves and Rollercoasters are used to describe something that is hard to imagine if one has not…
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