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“Directed and written by Tiffany Kimmel, this animated short chronicles one little girl's descent into a madhouse of medical and familial horror. Relayed in a voiceover of an innocent little girl and told like a bedtime story, it begins with a moment of physical discomfort that escalates into intense suffering. As Mata requires more attention and care, her vulnerability and need also expose the underlying cold callousness of her family system.

The striking 3-D puppet-based animation style -- courtesy of lead animator Eric Oxford -- is a fitting medium to bring a story about a broken body to life, and its muddied colors and awkward shapes and movements emphasize the twists, turns and tortures that Mata undergoes, as well as the cumulative crippling effect they have on her. But the style also captures the emotional rigidity of the experience, the faces of the adults never quite relaying any empathy for the little girl.”

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“There’s nothing wrong with being unhappy if you don’t consider unhappiness a pathology.”

- Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments

BIG FEELINGS explores everyday occurrences that can easily be ignored. Whether that’s from parental neglect, enmeshment, or abuse, as with the featured films Everybody Goes to the Hospital or Congratulations Debby, these films explore the awkwardness of expressing complex and large emotions — united by a narrative thread of shared human experience: i.e., feeling things that we’d rather not.

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Ina Pira writes, “A gripping and heartbreaking story told through the gentle eyes of a child. That balance can be hard to strike but works so well here, especially with the stop-motion.”

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Chelsea Lupkin writes, “Told through the eyes of a child, Everybody Goes to the Hospital is shockingly heavy, beautifully poetic, and fantastically haunting.”