Manchester Animation Festival

The Baby Factory is Closed

Dir. Deepa Mann-Kler | United Kingdom

You are not just in a game, you are inside a body. Not just any body: Zoraan’s. Her mind. Her muscles. Her memory. Everything you see, touch, hear is her. This is a living landscape, collapsing and fighting back. Zoraan is trapped inside her own body as it’s monitored, medicated and overwritten by systems of control, colonial, patriarchal and climate-driven. She’s not just the protagonist. She is the world.

The baby factory is closed, but the fight is just beginning…