The Eating of an Orange
In a large manor house identical figures eat the same, move the same, look the same. But everything will change for one woman when she gets given an orange by an unknown figure. She has never seen an orange. In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm of lichens, slugs and sensuous fluidity. But how can she balance this with the world she knows? She must make a choice: abandon her discovery, or step forwards into a new way of being.
United Kingdom / 2025 / 00:07:29
May Kindred-Boothby
May Kindred-Boothby is a director, writer and animator based in Bristol. She has worked as a freelance animator since 2016. Wanting to move more into direction and make some of her own work, she recently did the master’s in animation at the RCA. While there she completed her first directorial short The Eating of an Orange, which so far has been well received on the festival circuit and won the Special Jury award for Animation direction at Sundance Film Festival in 2025. She is now working on ideas for her next short, and her first feature.