Without Shame

An animated self portrait, celebrating the larger body, reclaiming body autonomy and working through fatphobia & body dysmorphia.

This short animated film acts as a declaration of body positivity; created through the act of hand drawn animation, a process of the artist drawing herself hundreds of times to achieve acceptance and reconnection with her physical self in a body shaming society.

  • Liberty Antonia Sadler
    Director
  • Liberty Antonia Sadler
    Animation
  • Strutt
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 43 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 1, 2018
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Fish&Chips International Erotic Film Festival
    Turin
    Italy
    January 19, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Fatal Femme Film Festival
    Brooklyn, New York City
    United States
    October 19, 2019
    Official Selection
  • WANDA: Feminism and Moving Image
    Belfast, Northern Ireland
    United Kingdom
    October 31, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest
    London, England
    United Kingdom
    November 16, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Film Strip Fest
    Atlanta, Georgia
    United States
    December 21, 2020
    Semi-Finalist
  • Bump’n’Grind - Film and Performance Fest
    Toronto
    Canada
    September 21, 2020
    Best Animated Film
  • Get on the Internet! Festival (Curated by Varjack-Lowry)
    London, England
    United Kingdom
    March 4, 2022
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Liberty Antonia Sadler

Liberty Antonia Sadler is an artist & filmmaker, based in London, working with mediums of drawing, text and moving image to explore issues of body politics, with a focus on the experience of living in a large queer body. Working within a personal-political context, she uses characters, radical softness & raw playfulness to discuss themes of size, vulnerability, queerness, femininity, food & sexuality. Their research explores the power of subjectivity within art practice and representation of fat bodies in arts & media.

Liberty Antonia’s work aims to open discussion about fat queer identity, imperfection and inequality; her multidisciplinary practice includes both first person performance and body political drawing & writing, with artworks exploring, at times, controversial issues such as fatphobia, eating disorders, fetish & body dysmorphia.

Liberty Antonia Sadler is an artist & filmmaker based in London, they studied B.A.(Hons) Performance Design & Practice, Central Saint Martins & M.A. Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art. Liberty Antonia continues her academic research and works as an Associate Lecturer on Performance Design & Practice Pathway at Central Saint Martins. Liberty Antonia is the founder of MicroActs, London, an ongoing artist film screening series bringing an international selection of shorts to the capital. Liberty Antonia Sadler is represented by Spantzo Gallery, NYC.

Her work has been featured at Whitechapel Gallery [London, UK], Barbican [London, UK], ICA [London, UK], BFI Southbank [London, UK], HOME [Manchester, UK], Centre for Contemporary Arts CCA [Glasgow, UK], Anthology Film Archives [New York City, USA], and at film festivals internationally, such as Underwire Film Festival [London, UK], New York Feminist Film Week [New York City, USA], AVIFF Art Film Festival [Cannes, France], GRRL Haus Cinema [Berlin, Germany], Experimental Forum [Los Angeles, USA] & CINEMQ [Shanghai, China]. Liberty Antonia's work has been featured in publications such as NYLON, Polyester Zine, Shades of Noir, KAVN metro.co.uk & WomenCinemakers.

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