Olamide Akintemi
The film follows Ade, a young girl who just can’t seem to decide on what to eat! The hustle and bustle of the market clouds her mind and chaos begins to ensue. Her imagination begins to blend with her reality and the only way to put an end to madness is to pick something! Anything! Off the menu!
What I wanted to explore went far behind the makings of this film, I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could start and finish a project. I wanted something to stand by and be proud of, I wanted to prove myself wrong.
I’ve discovered a lot about myself as an artist and potentially a director, creating is something that requires a lot of your attention and care and to share that process with others with the same goal in mind takes a lot of patience and dedication. It hasn’t always been full of great moments but there truly is something endearing in accepting the lack of perfection that comes with the process and results of making a film.
It was one of the first anime genres that fully introduced me to the world of anime, which led to my love for animation.
In my years of consuming countless hours of shoujo anime, I've noticed how gender is portrayed in that form of media. Is it simply just a performance to drive a story, or is it an actual valid source of representation for queer youth that falls out of the binary expression? I want to try and understand and discuss how anime and manga navigate their way through the topic of gender and binary expression and see how big a part that plays in the genre despite a lot of the relationships in the media following a heteronormative point of view. I'll be pulling a lot of references and points from older anime from the 90s and 2000s whilst making comparisons with more contemporary works of manga and anime to expand the points made throughout my essay and if I can find examples of characters who express themselves in a non-binary fashion in more recent animes and mangas that aren't necessarily from the shoujo genre I will reference them and also see if there are any contrasts from how gender expression and romance in older media is portrayed compared more recent media.
