Date of Award
Spring 5-2-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Film and Media Studies
First Advisor
Kara Lynch
Second Advisor
Poyen Wang
Academic Program Adviser
Andrew Demirjian
Abstract
All You Can Eat is a 2D-animated horror short following the patrons and inhabitants of a bakery as they prepare for its annual pie-eating contest. As the contest nears, tensions rise after the discovery of a dark secret amongst the staff inspires rebellion. Through the visual metaphor of pie and the pie-eating contest, this film explores how sexual violence functions on a systemic level. It explores our collective conditioning to a range of behaviors that contribute to patriarchal oppression and the social cycles that reinforce them across generations. Through design and surreal storytelling, this film captures the urgent threat of the increasing hostility of patriarchy taking place in the contemporary world, as well as the will to fight back.
Recommended Citation
Schiesswohl, Kelly, "All You Can Eat" (2025). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1396
Included in
Film Production Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Illustration Commons, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Screenwriting Commons, Women's Studies Commons
