Our bodies like dams
A short film set in a handmade, flooding city, this part love-story, part eco-fantasy, imagines a woman’s unexpected metamorphosis in the face of romantic and coastal decay.
Creator/Director/Puppet-builder: Sarah Finn
Director of Photography & Editor: Xuan Liu
Set Designer & Co-Puppet Builder: Karen Loewy Movilla
Sound Designer: Sid Diamond
Dancers/Puppet models: evan ray suzuki and Tam Nguyen
Our bodies like dams (10 minutes), is a short film made with animation, live-puppetry, miniature sets, and wearable sculpture, to follow a surrealistic narrative of a couple embracing as their apartment floods entirely. A seemingly straight apocalyptic love story, it gradually unfolds into a queer, post-human fantasy.
The film premiered at The Brick as part the 2023 Exponential Festival. Paired with the premiere was an installation of the film's sets, puppets, and process.
