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Maintain Yourself
Maintain Yourself

MAINTAIN YOURSELF

Directed by Ellie LaCourt
United States, 2018
Animation, Short

Synopsis

Maintain Yourself is a stop-motion film in which the animator performs her beauty routines on a puppet of herself. By removing these rituals from the contexts in which they are normalized, the film reveals how strange and unsettling they can be.

Synopsis

Maintain Yourself is a stop-motion film in which the animator performs her beauty routines on a puppet of herself. By removing these rituals from the contexts in which they are normalized, the film reveals how strange and unsettling they can be.