Our Picks: Batfish Soup by Amanda Bonaiuto

Batfish Soup by Amanda Bonaiuto

Wacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls, boiling stew and a bang.

Director’s Notes

Batfish Soup is a fictionalized absurdist film based on memories of freakish childhood visitations with my grandparents. Though the film’s spark was autobiographical, the film transformed over the course of its production into something more fictional. This film epitomizes my interest in the darkly humorous underpinnings of domestic drama. I produced this film as my first year film in the MFA Experimental Animation Program at California Institute of the Arts.