Falling Down a Strange Rabbit-hole: An Interview with Director and Animator May Kindred-Boothby

Authors

  • Paul Risker

Abstract

Speaking with MSJ, Kindred-Boothby discussed the gradual slide down the metaphorical rabbit-hole, as she imbues the real world in her films with a deepening strangeness. She also reflected on the influence of dreams on her work, allowing the audience to respond individually to the film’s specific themes of shame, social norms, and power, and ceasing to be a person during the making of The Eating of an Orange.

Author Biography

Paul Risker

Paul Risker is an independent scholar, freelance film and literary critic, and interviewer. Outside of editing MSJ’s interview and film festival sections, he mainly contributes to PopMatters, although his criticism and interviews have been published by both academic and non-academic publications, that include: Cineaste, Film International, The Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Little White Lies. He remains steadfast in his belief of the need to counter contemporary cultures emphasis on the momentary, by writing for posterity, adding to an ongoing discussion that is essentially us belonging to something that is bigger than ourselves.

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Published

2026-01-14

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2025): Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration

Section

Interviews