BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen (Denmark)
Vagina Eating Husband (2015/16)
Short Film
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“This work deals with issues concerning pregnancy, reproduction and parenthood in a grotesque and mythological way. The text works as the voice over on footage of a snake eating a rat slowly, which I recorded during my first pregnancy. At that time I was afraid of giving birth and was preparing myself by observing the snake eating – a kind of inverse action. When I got pregnant with my son 3 years later I made use of the footage in my art. By then I had the experience of the uncontrollable wild journey of becoming a parent. When I turned my focus away from the innocent child and instead towards the adult body in my writing it became possible for me to describe both the funny and serious aspects of my early parenthood.”