Not Another Bat-Mitzvah!
‘Not Another Bat-Mitzvah!’ explores the social pressures that an adolescent daughter is experiencing to look and dress well for multiple parties, through the mother and daughter’s verbal exchange. The film uses the space of the home, which is featured as a character in and of itself, to tell the story, using a combination of drawing, mono-printing, and 3D model sets. The mother and daughter’s dialogue is heard from a hallway and a flight of stairs – their environment reacts to their words and moods; a clock ticks as time is running out; leaves fall off the trees or shoots emerge out of branches like hair growth; and text appears up and down the bannisters in response to the girl’s anguish and the mother’s frustration.
