Red Flower
A plant consumes its owners blood, comes alive, and steals them both away to complete their life cycle in the wilderness.
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Stella RosenDirector
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Stella RosenWriter
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Vancouver Film SchoolProducer
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Project Type:Animation
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Runtime:3 minutes 10 seconds
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Completion Date:November 22, 2017
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Production Budget:0 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:Canada
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:N/A
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:Yes
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Copper Coast International Film FestivalSwansea
United Kingdom
January 23, 2018
World Premier
Official Selection -
Syndicated ShortsNew York City
United States
February 19, 2018
North American Premier
Official Selection -
Redline International Film FestivalToronto
Canada
February 15, 2018
Canada Premier
Best Experimental Short
Stella is a queer woman living in Seattle, Washington. She recently graduated from Vancouver Film School and is continuing to create new animated work. She loves being outside, board games, and bucking social norms.
This film is about reproductive power, our connection with the land, and non-normative desire. This film is an empowering, happy story about a woman's control over her own reproductive labor, as opposed to more common narratives that involve tragedy. I believe that control over resources like public land are connected to power over reproduction, and that these two themes could be told in a single story about a woman and a plant communing and completing each others' life cycles.