Moja babica je jajce / My Grandmother Is an Egg / Wo de aipo shi yike dan (我的阿婆是一顆蛋)

Wu-ching Chang (Aco Creative)
2021, Taiwan, UK, 9'

Film o krhkosti in vzdržljivosti ženske, ki je doživela zatiranje zaradi nepravičnih konfucijanskih tradicij. Z namenom vnaprej dogovorjene poroke so avtoričino babico v zgodnji mladosti prodali drugi družini kot bodočo snaho in novo delovno silo v gospodinjstvu.

A film about the fragility and resilience of a woman who faced oppression from unjust Confucian traditions. For the purpose of a pre-arranged marriage, the author’s grandmother was sold as a young girl to another family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law in productive roles.

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Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes
Technique: Mixed
Language: Chinese

Scriptwriter: Wu-ching Chang
Animators: Wu-ching Chang, Lok Yi Tsoi, Bouchra Fadil
Music: Nahum Strickland, Jen-shuo Chen, Alston Hsu
Other crew: Yung-yu Chang, Yu-lin Chang, Yu-chin Chang, Yu-jan Chang, Yu-hsia Chang, Wei-fang Jia, Xue-ying Chang

Wu-ching Chang

born in Taiwan, Wu-Ching Chang is an animation director who earned MA. Animation at Royal College of Art. She is the founder of Aco Creative Ltd. She has worked on animation, illustration, and concept art since 2014. Her films approach multiple issues of females and humanistic views. Her films are often based on cultural context by doing interviews and contain multiple experimental artistic practices. Her film won the Jury Special Mention Award at Atlanta Film Festival and Women Make Waves Film Festival and is selected at Animafest Zagreb and Hot Docs International Documentary Festival.