Eat Your Carrots
2022 · 3m · Canada
Directed by Laura Stewart
Genres: animation, comedy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
A woman eating carrots in front of the TV discovers an eyeball sprouting from her arm — a literal, absurdist riff on the folk wisdom that carrots improve your eyesight.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Needle-felted stop-motion of a girl growing an eyeball on her arm, made in the director's apartment with leftover scraps. Three minutes, one joke, well-executed — that's the format working as intended.
Stewart's needle-felted apartment-shot stop-motion with director-as-dance-reference — three minutes of folk-wisdom absurdism that knows its own scale. Charming on its own modest terms.
Needle-felted stop-motion shot entirely in the director's apartment using leftover craft materials, with a choreographed dance created by filming the director doing silly dances as puppet reference — that's a pandemic-friendly DIY methodology and the fuzzy-arm texture viewers note is the right tactile payoff.
Reviews
A breath of fresh air — the film explores our relationship with our bodies and, more pointedly, with our flaws, depicting an acceptance of physical differences initially perceived as repulsive.
Cute and funny and freaky and weird all at once — a fun little journey into the kooky mind of an animation filmmaker.