Directed and animated by May Kindred-Boothby during her MA in animation at the RCA.
Sound and music by May Kindred-Boothby and Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby
Created in 2024
A surreal and painterly exploration of the role convention can play in sexuality. The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same, all within their strict gendered roles. By chance she is given an orange. She has never seen an orange. Through her sensual exploration of the fruit she is transported into a luscious forest. The orange opens, vaginal and juicy, and as slugs copulate around her, she lets herself consume and be consumed into psychedelic orgasm. But the binary world around is an oppressive force that seeks to bring her back in line. She must find her way out.
This is a film about the journey of figuring out your sexuality and of rejecting the power the conventions of heteronormativity can have. It is a celebratory NO to being told that as queer people we are in anyway unnatural and is a juicy rejection of the rigidity of binary modes.
Sound and music by May Kindred-Boothby and Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby
Created in 2024
A surreal and painterly exploration of the role convention can play in sexuality. The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same, all within their strict gendered roles. By chance she is given an orange. She has never seen an orange. Through her sensual exploration of the fruit she is transported into a luscious forest. The orange opens, vaginal and juicy, and as slugs copulate around her, she lets herself consume and be consumed into psychedelic orgasm. But the binary world around is an oppressive force that seeks to bring her back in line. She must find her way out.
This is a film about the journey of figuring out your sexuality and of rejecting the power the conventions of heteronormativity can have. It is a celebratory NO to being told that as queer people we are in anyway unnatural and is a juicy rejection of the rigidity of binary modes.
