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Stop Motion Animation/Women | China | 2018 | 95 minutes | Color | 16:9 |
No dialogue
Spending six years of making the film alone, the first timer ZHOU Shengwei pays the tribute to Jan Švankmajer by using daily garbage to make the first Chinese post-modern stop motion animation feature, a timely MeToo fable about a high-heel's revenge.
Trailer
Festivals
2018 Shanghai International Film Festival - Main Competition
2018 Paris L’Étrange Festival - International Competition
2018 Miskolc International Film Festival
2019 Taipei Film Festival
2019 Montreal Fantasia International Film Festival
2019 Mulan International Film Festival
2019 Denver Film Festival
2019 Chongqing Youth Film Festival - Competition
2020 Fantastic Film Festival Australia
Synopsis
In the authoritarian world dominated by male shoes, female high heels are forbidden to work. On the other hand, newborn baby girl shoes are destined to be transformed into male shoes so that they can work in the cigarette factory. In the birth prison of female shoes, a high heel mother is expecting a daughter. To protect her unborn child from being turned into a male shoe, she murders the male shoe chief warden and makes a leather coat out of the body of the chief warden. Using the coat as a disguise, she pretends to be a male shoe and works in the cigarette factory to earn her living. After her identity is exposed, the high heel mother is ruthlessly ridiculed and tortured by her male colleagues and superiors at the factory. Driven by such mounting stress, she finally discovers the energy inside her body and starts a slaughter to avenge her daughter.
Director
ZHOU Shengwei
Cast (voice)
LV Fuyang
HAN Ruida
YUE Jiabao
CHEN Wen
CHOI Hoiian
LIU Sai
Crew
Director/Writer/Animator/DOP/Editor
ZHOU Shengwei
Producer
LI Yujian, ZHOU Shengwei
Music
YUAN Sihan
Sound Design
HAN Ruida