APOLLO AND DAPHNE film, reactions FEMALE Film Festival
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APOLLO AND DAPHNE, 3min., USA
Directed by Minglu DU
Apollo and Daphne is a clay-and-paper stop-motion animation that re-examines a canonical myth by attending to what is often obscured within its familiar telling. Instead of framing Apollo’s pursuit as an emblem of divine love, the work foregrounds the anxiety and coercive power embedded in this scene of chase and metamorphosis.
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