'Porous' is an experimental, multi-media film that unpicks the subtle nuances of sexual assault and the irregularities of memory. The enclosed bathroom setting serves as a vessel in which memories are confronted as the boundaries between water and skin blur. Water immersion provides a pathway to healing and entering the unconscious, as suspended and floating our bodies move out of time with the rest of the world.

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The motivation for the piece stems from a personal struggle to define Cecilia's own experience of sexual assault. The allusion to the event through symbolism and sound reflects a profound lack of personal clarity over these events. The influence of magical realism provides a framework for the narrative, as physical space and time stretch and change without explanation.The film operates as an animated painting, combining various mediums and techniques such as paint-on-glass animation, stop motion, digital frame-by-frame animation, and hand-painted gouache backgrounds. The idea was to create tactile imagery that flows freely, untethered from a canvas.