Bun in the Oven

An exploration of the changing forms and feelings of the female body throughout pregnancy and childbirth. The camera moves inside, outside and around the body, while text adds an emotional dynamic to this physical tale.

Wet painted and drawn animation under the camera mixed with sand and cut-out. Shot on 16mm colour and black-and-white film.

U.K., 1999, 3 mins, 4:3, Beta SP (PAL)/mini DV/DVD

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Awards

• Winner: Best Experimental Film, BAF! 2000 Bradford Animation Festival, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television 2000
• Special Commendation: Royal Television Society (NE) 1999

Reviews

'A fast moving tale of conception, pregnancy and birth that is dynamic and meaningful, conveying each and every feeling that a woman undergoes in a truly original and unusual style. A unanimous choice for the winner. The Experimental category is a marvellous opportunity to be truly original but only one of the finalists (the winner) achieved this result using frame by frame animation to amazing effect.'

– Review by Pat Raine Webb (ASIFA UK), formerly available at www.animatoon.co.kr

Screenings

• Imagining Ourselves online exhibit, International Museum of Women, www.imow.org April 2007
  Cinewomen, New York, U.S.A. February 2007
  Prophecy, Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton, U.K. August-October 2006
• BAF! 2000, Bradford, U.K., June 2000
• Flea Pit, Newcastle upon Tyne, October 1999
• Kinofilm 99, Manchester, U.K., July 1999

A film by Alys Hawkins
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