Rocks in My Pockets
Made In New York: Best of NYC Indie Animation
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1h 28m
Directed by Signe Baumane | 89 mins | 2014
Armed with a surrealist sensibility and a wicked sense of humor, New York-based Latvian animator Signe Baumane has long probed the thorny parts of life as a woman. Here, hand-drawn imagery combines with papier-mache sets and stop-motion techniques in an unflinching and explicitly personal investigation, as Baumane attempts to clear away the mysteries surrounding the mental illness that has afflicted the women in her family and so to better understand her own depression.
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