Impossible Journey (2024)

The journey of two storks on an ordinary workday reveals the urgent crisis in maternal health care in the United States. One stork has a relatively safe trip to deliver her baby, while the other faces significant dangers, risking her life; each obstacle serves as a metaphor for various forms of violence or obstetric complications. Throughout her journey, the protagonist visually deconstructs herself, just as she does the idealization of motherhood. A layer of reality begins to take over the screen through experimental manual painting. Upon reaching the maternity ward, the stark difference between the two storks becomes clear: the one who barely survived is the one delivering a Black baby.

Released Dec. 31, 2024 5 min None+

Genres: Animation, Drama

Keywords: tmdb.racial-prejudice, tmdb.real-facts, tmdb.animated-painting, tmdb.animation, tmdb.frame-by-frame-animation

Production Companies: COLOSSAL, The Youth

Country: Brazil
Production Countries: Brazil, United States
Languages: English