Title

I Don't Want To Be This Kind of Animal Anymore

Creator

Kaffe, Despoina

Abstract

A girl-animal rifles through her past, caught by a college-owned, borrowed Digital Single-Lens Reflex camera. She reminisces about the phantomes of her past, the angelic form of anorexia, the stiffling shadow of perfection, the oppressing, pungent mist of control: a fragmented vision, captured in interviews. Spectres of her long-forgotten childhood litter the film 'reel'. Voices for the people who knew her.

A desaturated marine vista flashes in pieces, the simlacrum of a dress, a gutted, bleeding, rearranged orange. The sequences pockmarked by the girl-animal's face.

This is an Apologia. This is a dance. This *is* me.

Keywords

autobiographical documentary

anorexia nervosa

mental health

Date Available

May 27, 2026

Course

CN4239 L6 Making the Short Documentary

Session

Video Projects, Time Based Media & Theatre Performance Video

Location

Art Center Auditorium

Event

Year 2026 | 10th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium