Eat Pretty

2016, 8 minutes

Successful photographer Anna finds her glamorous life is not enough to fill a growing and disturbing sense of hunger.

Anna lives life in a series of perfect moments, full of instagram-able sweets, bloggable outfits and glamorous dates in restaurants. She is a successful product photographer, priding herself on making items and people look better than they do in real life. Her studio is constantly crowded with the chatter of makeup blogs, business calls and fairy tale movies. Yet Anna feels inescapable hunger, and starts to hear disturbing sounds of eating and digestion whenever she is alone. Determined to continue her aspirational lifestyle of constant beauty, she tries to fill up on pretty things, from flower petals and cocktails to soap and jewellery. As her denial grows Anna finds herself repeating the same staged scenes in order to push the hunger away, but her sense of reality becomes increasingly warped until love, food and beauty all become the same thing.

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