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Love is a Hunter

Love is a Hunter

JESS MACCORMACK + RAE SPOON | CANADA | 2010 | 3 MIN | ENGLISH

JESS MACCORMACK + RAE SPOON | CANADA | 2010 | 3 MIN | ENGLISH

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Synopsis

This watercolor animation of childlike creatures, poppies, and dismembered legs—collaged from Nothing Ever Happened—reflects on loss. Set to Rae Spoon’s Love is a Hunter, it explores how love can be transformative yet threatening, evoking a childhood shaped by hiding from violence, pain, and the fragility of affection.

Producer

Jess MacCormack

Writer

Jess MacCormack

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