The Great Egg
Project details
- Year
- 2021
- Programme
- animation
- Practices
- autonomous-practice
- Minor
- Critical Studies
The Great Egg is a fantasyful, lovely and funny animation short about fertilization. We experience the story from the egg cells because so far, their role has been underexposed. The aim of my story is to portray the female genitalia as something powerful and beautiful.
Do you know the fertilization story of the tough sperm cells, fighting through the uterus to be the first one to penetrate the egg cell? Well, this fertilization story is not true and is romanticized by stereotypical behavior of men and women. I don’t think I need to explain what role the egg has played. Wait a minute, has the egg actually been given an active role in this romanticized fertilization story at all? The disadvantage of the story, when it is framed in such perspectives, is that one can say; Women and men are just as different from each other as passive eggs and energetic sperm cells. Why do we not show the egg and sperm as equivalents of each other?
The Great Egg is a funny and adventurous story about fertilization. The story is based on facts of the biological fertilization. In the story, I play with gender expressions, stereotypes and I don’t recoil from some sensual expression and critique of the media portraying masculinity and femininity. With the Great Egg, I hope that women can feel proud of their female genitalia and know that it is allowed to show your sensual side.
The story ‘The Great Egg’ evolves around the eggs Evie and Eva. The friendship between Evie and Eva tend to break up when Evie becomes afraid of sperm cells. When Eva has ovulated, Evie is convinced that she must save Eva from the sperm cells, but then she meets them herself. Do they behave as she expects?
Link to the trailer:
This project is made in collaboration with Studio Urrebuk and Nozem Audio. For my graduation project I animated the first minute and a half of the ten minute short The Great Egg. If you have any questions about the project or want to work together to produce the project in its entirety, I’d love to hear from you. You can get in touch with me via the link to my Instagram or Linkedin account.