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by Michèle Cournoyer — 1999

The Hat is a tough, visceral experience. The filmmaker, with naked honesty, invites the audience to share in the pain of a woman, an exotic dancer whose body is on display and whose soul is forever soiled.

The woman can never forget. The hat becomes for her an overwhelming, invasive obsession, constantly resurfacing in a rapid and implacable succession of metamorphoses. Animator Michèle Cournoyer uses black ink on white paper to illustrate this painful tale. With a quick stroke, she throws ink on paper, creating an occasional blotch.

Production : National Film Board of Canada (nfb.ca)

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Animating the unconscious - Desire, Sexuality and Animation

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Animating the unconscious - Desire, Sexuality and Animation

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amazing how dark they all are - only one at a push could really be described as a positive portrayal of sexuality

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As critical interest has grown in the unique ways in which art animation explores and depicts subjective experience - particularly in relation to desire, sexuality, social constructions of gender, confessional modes, fantasy, and the animated documentary - this volume offers detailed analysis of both the process and practice of key contemporary filmmakers, while also raising more general issues around the specificities of animation.

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The orange begins as crule optimism, but it rots. She is is forced to go and find the reality that the fantasy has shown her.

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"Shame is a shrinking feeling, the desire to recoil from the perceived judgement of another"

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Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme

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There are few things in life, more frustrating than not reaching an orgasm when you've been getting down and dirty. Using a distinct style of sketchbook simplicity married with restrained elegance, Polish National Film School student Renata Gąsiorowska teaches us a thing or two about masturbation in her sex-positive short film Cipka (Polish for ). A huge hit at Sundance 2017, this eight minute animation is an exciting treat, oozing with fun and naughtiness, and might just be the sweetest film about a temperamental, disembodied vagina you'll ever see. So sit back, relax and enjoy, because there is plenty to love about Pussy.

Centred around a young woman's romantic evening of self-pleasure, Pussy takes an unexpected turn, when our distracted protagonist becomes frustrated by her rushed clumsiness and her vagina decides to take matters into its own hands. Co-animators Gąsiorowska and Agnieszka Borowa use 2D hand-drawn animation, with a few prime colours and minimalist backgrounds to create a vibrant visual style which is both cartoonish and sophisticated, and the effect is delightfully endearing.

"I wanted to make an erotic film", Gąsiorowska admits in an interview for Director's Notes, "when I started doodling and thinking I really quickly got an idea to make a film about masturbation. The pussy character naturally appeared in my drawings and sketches and I thought this can be a funny, relatable erotic comedy but also more general story about liberation". She found inspiration from blogs and websites which offered guides for female masturbation, and used those as a starting point for Pussy.

Masturbation plays a huge part in our sexual confidence, which in turn affects our sexual pleasure. I mean, how do you expect to enjoy sex with someone else if you can't enjoy it on your own? Although my family wasn't religious, sex was never openly discussed, so when I was little I decided that pleasuring yourself was a dreadful thing to do. I specifically remember one incident when I was lying breathless on the bathroom floor (the flat was small and crowded, so one had to be flexible when choosing the scene of the crime), after the deed was done, feeling like a massive pervert and silently swearing to never let it happen again, only to break my solemn vow a mere day or two later.

I wish there were films like Pussy when I was growing up. Films which demystified the act of masturbation and helped me understand that it wasn't just natural and completely normal, but essential for one's sexual development.

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Cipka (Pussy) by Renata Gasiorowska | Short Animation

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There are few things in life, more frustrating than not reaching an orgasm when you've been getting down and dirty. Using a distinct style of sketchbook simplicity married with restrained elegance, Polish National Film School student Renata Gąsiorowska teaches us a thing or two about masturbation in her sex-positive short film Cipka (Polish for ).

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Blind boy describing eating an orange mindfully, as if for the first time 50 Mins in

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Blind boy describing eating an orange mindfully, as if for the first time 50 Mins in

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Naked Youth Full video ENG SUB | BL Anime

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How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels (1996)

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"Cómo las alas son unidas a las espaldas de los ángeles"
Un viejo hombre, manejando delicados instrumentos, intenta hallar la anatomía de las alas de los ángeles. (FILMAFFINITY)

Dirección: Craig Welch
País: Canadá

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Repete [1995] CZE - Michaela Pavlátová | Repete [1995] CZE - Michaela Pavlátová | By Animation ArtFacebook

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#To Have And To Hold   UK 2003, Emily Mantell SF Animation

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"You can’t stand living according to the old terms—yesterday’s mode of consciousness pinches like an outgrown shoe. Craving change, you yearn to open yourself and honor the space/time between transitions. Coyolxauhqui’s light in the night ignites your longing to engage with the world beyond the horizon you’ve grown accustomed to. Fear keeps you exiled between repulsion and propulsion, mourning the loss, obsessed with retrieving a lost homeland that may never have existed. Even as you listen to the old consciousness’s death rattle, you
continue defending its mythology of who you were and what your world looked like. To and fro you go, and just when you’re ready to move, you find yourself resisting the changes. Though your head and heart decry the mind /body dichotomy, the conflict in your mind makes your body a battlefield where beliefs fight each other."

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http://filmow.com/l-homme-sans-ombre-t95424 A solitary man without a shadow rises from his desk, dons his hat, and leaves his apartment. He walks through a city to a large door, knocks, shows his invitation, and is admitted to a colorful scene. He walks through drawing rooms and gardens. He speaks with a man in a top hat who offers him a life of romance, but in that life there is betrayal. Is there a place in the world for our man without a shadow?

(Baseada na obra de Adelbert von Chamisso, "A História Maravilhosa de Peter Schlemihl") L'homme sans ombre L'homme sans ombre

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http://filmow.com/l-homme-sans-ombre-t95424 A solitary man without a shadow rises from his desk, dons his hat, and leaves his apartment. He walks through a city to a large door, knocks, shows his invitation, and is admitted to a colorful scene. He walks through drawing rooms and gardens.

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The strange rituals of gender and courting

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A signature work by Pina Bausch, Nelken (Carnations) is a pinnacle in Tanztheater Wuppertal's repertoire. Amplified by a new generation of performers, this bouquet of dance is an ode to the beauty of dancing bodies.

In the history of dance, few creations bear the stamp of genius. Nelken, premiered in 1982, is one of them. In a huge field of 8000 carnations, the ensemble deploys the seasons, moves from chair to chair, displays its virtuosity with a nod to classical forms.

The work conveys a world view that is tragic and cruel, but also tender and overflowing with a humanity that has touched audiences all over the world. Certain passages, such as the "Nelken Line," have become iconic. Beauty blossoms here at every moment.

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Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - Nelken - Sadler's Wells Theatre

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A signature work by Pina Bausch, Nelken (Carnations) is a pinnacle in Tanztheater Wuppertal's repertoire. Amplified by a new generation of performers, this bouquet of dance is an ode to the beauty of dancing bodies. In the history of dance, few creations bear the stamp of genius.

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Wolf’s Milk from Mitchell Rd, Faro, YT, CA on August 31, 2020 at 07:15 PM by Traci. Photos 2 and 3 were taken in the morning when it was close to 0C; the first photo was taken in th…

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carnival candy slime mold (Arcyria denudata)

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carnival candy slime mold from San Mateo County, CA, USA on April 30, 2023 at 08:43 AM by Ryan Pearson

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Didymium squamulosum from Samuel P Taylor on January 25, 2021 at 09:35 AM by Alison K Pollack

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Over 900 species can be identified as slime mold. Formerly thought of as fungi, these small organisms help break down dead vegetation. With so many species, there is a rich diversity to slime mold and this is what first captured the attention of photographer Barry Webb. He'd already been taking photographs of fungi for many years when slime mold caught his attention two years ago. Since then, he hasn't turned back.

Through his macro photography, he brings us into the world of these fascinating organisms. "The incredible diversity of form and color of slime molds keeps me obsessively searching for new species to photograph," Webb tells My Modern Met. And his photography allows the public to see just how much variety there really is. From colorful spheres to translucent amorphous shapes, the slime molds that Webb captures run the gamut.

Feeding on bacteria, yeast, and fungi, slime molds are organisms that have long fascinated scientists as well as creatives. Each single-cell amoeba is amazingly efficient at finding food and can form large masses in order to engulf vegetation. They produce spores, which get picked up by the wind or animals and this allows them to start life anew.

While most people walk through life without noticing slime mold, Webb's photos prove that they certainly deserve our attention. One look and the next time you wander through the forest or are working in the yard, you'll be scanning for these spectacular alien-like organisms.

If you want to see even more of Webb's slime mold photography, be sure to follow his Instagram, where he often posts photos of his latest finds. Print requests can also be made via the contact form on his website.

Photographer Barry Webb specializes in macro images of slime mold.

These organisms feed on bacteria, yeast, and fungi and help with the decomposition of vegetation.

All images © Barry Webb. My Modern Met granted permission to feature photos by Barry Webb.

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Macro Photos Reveal the Often Unseen Beauty and Diversity of Slime Molds

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Over 900 species can be identified as slime mold. Formerly thought of as fungi, these small organisms help break down dead vegetation. With so many species, there is a rich diversity to slime mold and this is what first captured the attention of photographer Barry Webb.

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The exhibit has seven live displays featuring two nudibranch species: the lettuce nudibranch and the pygmy sea hare. Other mollusks showcased include a common octopus, California sea hares, horse conch, red abalone, giant clams, cowries and Indo-Pacific snails. Another vital component of the exhibit is a display of live freshwater mussels, which Christie said are one of the most endangered animals in North America.

As for the art, Waterman purposefully sculpted these tiny animals on a large scale to allow guests to view the nudibranch's unique details. Frankie explained that he similarly approached the photography display.

"I wanted to blow up the images so people can appreciate these unusual, beautiful animals," Frankie said. "But we stayed away from closeups of cerata and other nudibranch body features so our guests can see those features in the context of the entire animal - the same way that Gar's sculptures capture the complete form."

Some photographs are physically displayed, while others will be viewable on a 60-foot digital screen. There is also an outreach component to this exhibit, including a photo competition.
The idea of A Slug's Life: Facing the Climate Endgame is to educate and create a sense of awareness that promotes behavioral changes. "By giving people creatively presented examples of biodiversity and reminding them that this is what we have to lose," Waterman explained, "there is a chance to strike a chord of environmental awareness that we can hope might lead to proactive involvement."

Visitors will no doubt leave this exhibit wanting to do their part to protect the beloved nudibranch. Christie explained that each of us could do something to make a difference and protect their habitat.

"The easiest, smartest ways to do that," he said, "are to reduce your use of single-use plastics, find ways to reduce your carbon footprint and commit to purchasing only sustainable seafood." He also pointed out that nudibranchs are difficult to maintain in tanks and advises home aquarists to "admire these beautiful creatures on the reef while diving or through art and photography rather than trying to keep them at home."

© Alert Diver - Q2 2021

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Waterman, who is possibly the only sculptor in the world who creates sea slugs from stone, further identified the importance of incorporating art into the exhibit: "Art can be an extremely useful tool in engaging an audience, and art and science combined can be more effective educators than either on their own."

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Pyjama Slug – Chromodoris africana – Scuba Travel Blog

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As we have spent a while looking at big stuff around the world, it’s about time we took a closer look at the reef and studied some of the tiny stuff. Often overlooked because they are a bit smaller and hidden amongst the reef, these critters are often brightly coloured and covered in cool patterns and markings. The critter we are going to look at today is Chromodoris Africana, the Four-Coloured Nudibranch but better known as the Pyjama slug in the Red Sea. A member of the Choromodorididae family, a large nudibranch family with over 360 species, they are one of the more common species that can be found in the Red Sea. It is very easy to mistake for other species while you are diving so hopefully, I can help you tell them apart!

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Other animals practice 'traumatic insemination,' stabbing a partner during sex-but this sea slug is reportedly the first to target that body part.

Published 16 Feb 2022, 09:59 GMT

This photo magnifies a mating pair of the sea slugs Siphopteron makisig. The marine gastropod actually is less than a quarter inch long, with yellow and red markings on its translucent white exterior. (The blue seen here is water in the image background.)

Photograph by NILS ANTHES AND ROLANDA LANGE, UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN

In its native Pacific waters, the sea slug Siphopteron makisig looks tiny and delicate, like a bud of coloured glass. But in reality this slug is a mirror-image mating machine, as modelled by the pair in the photograph above.

Like most sea slug species, S. makisig is a hermaphrodite, endowed with both male and female reproductive organs that it uses at the same time during mating. But unlike other sea slugs, it tops off trysts with unusually targeted stabbing.

The sex starts normally enough. To fertilise eggs developing in each slug's female parts, the other slug deposits sperm with its penis. Actually, only half of its penis, which has two prongs: one that delivers sperm with its bulbous end, and the other tipped with a syringe-like stylet (and sometimes called hypodermic genitalia). During the sex act, each slug stabs the other with the stylet, which delivers prostate fluid likely bearing hormones. Evolutionary biologist Rolanda Lange says the fluid may "increase the fecundity of a sea slug's own sperm, or inhibit that deposited by previous partners."

When other animals stab partners during sex (aka traumatic insemination), they spear various body parts. But in a study Lange co-authored, she identifies S. makisig as "the first known instance" of an animal stabbing its partner between the eyes-perhaps the better to influence the central nervous system.

Description

S. makisig, a marine gastropod, is less than a quarter inch long, with yellow and red markings on its translucent white exterior.

Habitat

The sea slug lives on sand beds at ocean depths from about 20 feet to about 90 feet and commonly nestles within microalgal formations.

Range

The mollusc has been identified in waters off the Philippines, Australia, and Indonesia.

This story appears in the March 2022 issue of National Geographic magazine.

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This sea slug's mating ritual ends with a stab to the head

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Other animals practice 'traumatic insemination,' stabbing a partner during sex-but this sea slug is reportedly the first to target that body part.

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Nudibranch: Brightly-coloured sea slugs photographed using a macro lens

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Photographer Thomas Vignaud photographs nudibranchs off the coast of southern France.

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Looking at the different species of slime molds, this tiny world of the myxomycetes transported me to Alice's wonderland. Even the herbarium specimens over 35 years old had a colorful, whimsical charm. Largely overlooked, these small organisms are more difficult to spot in nature, regardless of how vibrant they may appear under a dissecting scope. The specimens I looked at were just one stage of their lifecycle, the mature plasmodia. The mature plasmodia are made up of thousands upon thousands of individual cells. These mature plasmodia are analogous to the spore producing mushrooms of many fungi. Factors such as pH changes, as well as nutrient and resource availability trigger these single celled animal-like protozoa to congregate into these spore bearing structures. You really need a trained eye to spot them readily. They tend to grow on detritus like fallen logs, sticks, twigs, and leaves, and live in a diverse range of habitats, from the arctic tundra, to insanely hot and dry deserts. They consume bacteria, fungal spores and tissues, and other small particles of organic matter. Interestingly, just like fungi, there is the largest diversity of slime mold species at latitudes dominated by temperate ecosystems.

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Ecogeography and diversity of the Myxomycetes

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Perplexing mycologists and protozoologists for centuries, slime molds are fascinating species that share a similar ecogeographical pattern to members of the fungal kingdom. If you live in a mid-latitude temperate region as I do, you lucked out!

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Ferns are easy to grow. Plant experts Mat Reese and Rory Dusoir recommend the best ferns for your garden and explains how best to care for them

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Haircap Moss In Bloom Polytrichum Macro photo, photography Prints Newfoundland Nature Photographer ArtByJudieAnn

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Through the macrophotography of lichen, we will journey into a magical kingdom that the woodland fairies secretly inhabit. We will be viewing their world much closer than usual and will be intrigued by the beauty that continuously lays at their feet. Macrophotography makes this possible for us mere humans.

You will journey through a world padded with the color and texture of lichen. You will be able to view this world up close and personal through the magic of macrophotography which brings tiny details into amazing focus.

Lichen is a very interesting subject - not quite fungus and not quite algae. Instead, the two organisms are layered together in a symbiotic relationship that benefits both.

Macrophotography will allow you to discover remarkable features about the lichen that you would not otherwise have been able to see with the naked eye. And you can take as long as you want searching for a fairy who might have been caught peering out just as the photography snapped the shot.
So come and take a magical journey through the macrophotographic world of the intriguing lichen.
(Note: Clicking on most images will allow you to view a larger version of that image.)

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Macrophotography / Microphotography of Lichen; 67 Macrophotographic Images of Lichen

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You will travel into the magical world of lichen through macrophotography. Macrophotography will allow you to view details of lichen that we would not otherwise be able to observe. You will see various types of lichen that come in a varied assortment of colors, textures and shapes.

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Xanthoria parietina is a foliose, or leafy, lichen. It has wide distribution, and many common names such as common orange lichen, yellow scale, maritime sunburst lichen and shore lichen. It can be found near the shore on rocks or walls (hence the epithet parietina meaning "on walls"), and also on inland rocks, walls, or tree bark.

Similar species: Teloschistales

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Common Orange Lichen - UV macro 2.5:1, Heesch, Netherlands - by Ferdy Christant - JungleDragon

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Common Orange Lichen - UV macro 2.5:1, Heesch, Netherlands. Credit for using lichens as UV subjects goes to the makers of the Adaptalux lighting system, this is one of their tutorials. The difference is in magnification, they're using a non-macro approach whilst I tried my luck at 1:1, 2.5:1 and 5:1.

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83 Final Film ideas | art inspiration, art painting, illustration art

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Dec 7, 2023 - Explore May Kindred-Boothby’s board “Final Film” on Pinterest. See more ideas about art inspiration, art painting, illustration art.

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In Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos's new, surreal sci-fi period piece, the costumes that Emma Stone dons to play Bella Baxter, a Victorian woman whose brain has been replaced with that of an infant, are as eccentric and exhilarating as the film itself - jaw-dropping creations that immediately transport you to the eye-popping parallel universe in which this tale is set.

In the wake of her transplant, a wacky experiment dreamed up by her guardian, Dr Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), she's effectively a toddler, learning to walk and talk in a series of elaborately ruffled, puff-sleeved babydoll dresses, Victorian bloomers and nightgowns. But then, she discovers sex, and this changes everything - the hazy black-and-white cinematography gives way to lush colour and, as Bella joins her new lover, the caddish Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), on a whirlwind trip to Lisbon, Alexandria and Paris, she finally gains the freedom to experiment with her wardrobe, pairing diaphanous skirts with cropped silk jackets and bright yellow raincoats with flesh-coloured blouses. From then on, as she evolves - from dabbling in philosophy and taking a job, out of curiosity, at a Parisian brothel, to developing an interest in socialism and, eventually, aspiring to become a doctor - so do her outlandish ensembles.

"I knew that Yorgos didn't want this to look like a sci-fi or period film," Holly Waddington, the wildly talented costume designer behind the looks, tells me in the wake of Poor Things's premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The costumer is no stranger to period dramas with a modern bent, having outfitted Florence Pugh for the steely thriller Lady Macbeth and Elle Fanning for the raucous romp The Great, but for this, she says, "anything like lace, beading or embroidery felt absolutely wrong". Instead, she took inspiration from Victorian patterns with exaggerated silhouettes and breathed new life into them through the use of modern fabrics like plastic and latex. The effect is wondrous and discombobulating, both accentuating Bella's otherworldliness and confirming her to be a heroine far ahead of her time.

Below, Waddington talks us through all of Bella's key looks and phases, from the sculptural bustle cage inspired by a Moncler puffer, to the mac designed to resemble "a period condom".

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Poor Things's Costume Designer On Creating A Sexually Liberated Fashion Fantasia

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The costume designer of 'Poor Things', Holly Waddington, talks us through the incredible costumes Emma Stone wears in the film, following its premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2023.

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