Directed by Pixie Cram

Logline: A stop-motion fairytale about a midwife, a new mother and a Witch Hunter.

Synopsis: A dazzling, contemporary style of stop-motion animation is used to depict one of the oldest stories dating back to ancient times: men's fear of women and of the power of motherhood. In the film, people and objects glide and stutter through space, fluid and staccato at the same time, as the reality around them warps and shifts.

TW: woman is burned at the stake, birth/pregnancy sequence

Distribution Contact: WFG

More Details

RUNTIME: 5 Minutes
GENRE: Animation, Narrative/Fiction
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Ontario
TECHNIQUES: Animated Objects, Animated Painting, Choreographed, Pixilation, Stop Motion
KEYWORDS: Child Birth, Feminist Issues, Historical, Midwife, Religion, Witches, Witch Hunt, Witch Hunter, Woman Filmmaker, Women

Director's Statement: Witch Woman grew out of pixilation experiments with dancers that I conducted in the summer of 2020. Feeling that the techniques we'd explored would lend themselves well to a story about magical occurrences, spectral evidence and hysteria, I landed on the theme of the Witch Hunts of the 17th Century. In my research, I learned that midwives were among the most persecuted because of their intimate knowledge of childbirth and of plants that could alter the course of a pregnancy. This became the subject matter of the film.