BREAST CANCER NOW ‘A LOVE HATE RELATIONSHIP’
DIRECTED BY ANNA GINSBURG
UNITED KINGDOM // 2020
1 MINS
The film conveys the different journeys, and accompanying emotions, women go on with their breasts; from pride and embarrassment as their breasts develop, to their breasts attracting attention from others, to breastfeeding.
Reflective Encounters
“A person’s relationship to their breasts is often as unique and personal as the individual themselves. Whether man or woman, cis, trans or non-binary, facets of our histories and identities shape how we feel about the tissue on our chests.
Anna Ginsburg has forged a career out of short animations about women’s relationship to their bodies. With Breast Cancer Now - A Love Hate Relationship, her use of bright contrasting colours grab the eye. The way shapes fluidly morph from one person to another means that the short can breeze over a lot of ground in a short space of time (all of 68 seconds in fact), from the male gaze to body hair, from casual sex to motherhood. By incorporating the various realities of having breasts, Ginsburg is able to establish breast cancer awareness as a universal need.”
— Cathy Brennan