Reptilica

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Animation Women Hysteria Dolls Surreal Chess Board Worms Falling Playing Cards
Bambee Straaf
  • United Kingdom English
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  • Added: 06-Oct-08

Reptilica is half animation half a film where real people perform.
It Starts with a doll which is animated with the stop motion technique,
she is searching through the many dry leaves that rest on the floor,
something she has seen or felt passing by, but she can't seem to find it.
Other scenes in the movie introduce small pink worms falling on
a group of ivy leaves, these are the disturbing presence that bother
the doll as they sneak under the leaves, never letting themselves to be seen.
These worms might be imaginary creatures belonging to the same fragmented
body of the doll/woman. The doll's actions alternate with those
of a real woman, she too is searching through the leaves and her movements
at some stage of the film become frenetic, she tries to cover her body with the plants as if
to operate a symbiosis with nature.

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  • Provocative!

    This short film made me think of all the unnecessary things in my life that I would love to purge but cannot for whatever reason. No matter how hard I try to pull weeds in my garden or clean up more just grows back or fills in. We spend a lot of our lives trying to sort through the crap and in the end we simply move on to something else. Disturbing yet quite insightful. It was like a moving abstract painting!

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