Passageways

Filmstill Passageways

Passageways

Voies de passage
Milla Cummings, Geneviève Tremblay
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
Canada
2024
5 minutes
French
Subtitles: 
English
German premiere

How does it feel when your body becomes a different one? Milla Cummings and Geneviève Tremblay explore (peri)menopause with a physical, concrete approach: The menopause they show is a living stop-motion organism, a cave with pulsating walls where a naked elderly woman gently inters her last eggs. From offscreen, a number of mature women recount their experiences – of dry skin, especially in the vaginal area, of rage against the universally asserted sex appeal of aging men, and of the increasing loss of their social visibility.
For every negative aspect, these worldly-wise narrators formulate a counterpoint or constructive course of action in authentic audio recordings. And they also report on the positive sides of this drastic transformation: The energy that the body would have reserved for childbearing along with the eggs is now released for new projects! On screen, a curtain aptly opens to offer a view of a shimmering, glittering foam of possibilities. At the end, our protagonist leaves the cave and climbs the nearest mountain. This film describes more than just arduous passages one has to go through: The “passageways” might just as well be transitions to a new life.


Marie Ketzscher

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28.10.
#211
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28.10.2025
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30.10.
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02.11.
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Milla Cummings, Geneviève Tremblay
Script
Milla Cummings, Geneviève Tremblay
Cinematographer
Geneviève Tremblay
Editor
Milla Cummings
Producer
Geneviève Tremblay, Milla Cummings
Sound Design
Dave Gagné
Score
Patrick Ouellet
Animation
Milla Cummings, Geneviève Tremblay
Animation Technique
Puppets

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Main Contact
Geneviève Tremblay
gen_trem@hotmail.com
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award