Not Enough Womb for the Two of Us
2024 · 1m · Canada
Directed by Cameron Kletke
Genres: animation, comedy, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Twin fetuses spar inside the womb in a hand-drawn comic battle where elbows and an umbilical cord become weapons.
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Finally—someone took the most claustrophobic, intimate space imaginable and turned it into a slapstick arena. The absurdity of twin fetuses weaponizing an umbilical cord is exactly the kind of "wait, WHAT?" premise that makes you realize how safe most animation actually plays it.
Kletke situates this squarely in a lineage of body-horror comedy and surrealist hand-drawn animation, though the execution feels slightly more gimmick than sustained formal vision; the premise carries more weight than the moment-to-moment craft justifies over sixty seconds.
The decision to make the umbilical cord a *functional* weapon rather than just scenery transforms this from concept-dependent into something genuinely inventive—that single choice of weaponization elevates what could have been a one-liner into a fully realized visual joke.