Anna Ginsburg

0:18Hi everyone so I'm an animator an Aloha and a live-action director and I predominantly do music videos I've done some tour visuals commercials and this is one of my first short films and this is a rotating aubergine which this is a bit of a shameless plug for a new project coming soon called and spin the OBE which is going to be an interactive site with sound and I also thought that this was a good way of communicating a bit about my practice this is a hundred stills run together to make the rotation and each still was generated in a completely different way so some of them are painted some of them are drawn and some of them are CG some of them made of paper and some of them made out of elastic bands and I love that idea of a hybrid with in animation in terms of technique and with also with in live-action as well.

1:15And I'm here to talk about private parts which is an animated documentary about sexuality we're talking vaginas and penises and it is all voice real voice recorded interviews that have been being characterized as genitals and so I'm going to talk about where the idea first came from and and it was a long long time ago it was when I was about 14 and I'd watch Cruel Intentions I don't know if any of you have seen it the is a steamy film. And I was ill with the flu in bed and I went on this crusade to achieve my first orgasm and it took ages because as I'm sure most of you know Jonah's weren't going to be complicated and take a while to work out.

2:11And then I recovered from the flu had had this amazing experience trotted into school which was state school in central in central London and sat down with my group of female friends and told them and their reaction was such a surprise to me it was one of kind of communal disgust and I didn't we'd all known that boys has been wanking since year six and telling us like suck it and like I like you know communally doing it's like WWF and the staff and we would I was actually like deeply saddened and it was my first kind of wake-up call that sexual inequality is is an issue and and then as I moved on and grew up a bit.

3:02And now I'm in my mid-20s and still many of my nearest and dearest female friends are for some reason unable to connect with their bodies and experience the pleasure that their bodies are capable of and climax with partners and some of them haven't even managed to climax on their own it's a really confident young women and so I kind of just wanted to explore why this was happening then I saw this wonderful piece of work with the great wall of vagina this is just a section of it and but it's huge and it's by an artist called Jamie and McCartney in Brighton and basically like this this I found this super super refreshing because I feel like I'd only ever seen vaginas either in a pornographic context or a medical context and I'd always been kind of self-conscious about my labia and it was really nice it was really nice to see like the like everything vaginas are super diverse like noses eyes bombs hair color etc and so then I said I read The Vagina Monologues quite proudly on the Underground and and yet I found it to be super moving really accessible also really funny and split up into really accessible chapters so there's a pube chapter there's a clitoris chapter and I referenced these chapters in in my film.

4:36But I felt like if you're reading the Vagina Monologues you're already really really engaged with the idea of female sexuality and sexual liberation.

4:44And I wanted to make something that was accessible and easily shared for people who might not necessarily see themselves as a feminist or be particularly engaged with the issue and I also felt like it was important to include male voices and a male stance point because I feel like this issue affects everyone while I was researching and I decided to do voice recordings of loads of friends and so they also some people I didn't know this app was released and which is called happy playtime which involves this character which I dunno if it's that great as a character but it's a it's a vulva that's the vagina and clitoris and it is basically trying to explain to you the female anatomy and out of an orgasm this was banned from the App Store a day after it was released and which I found to be incredibly disturbing because apps like this Hristov where you try and get as many strokes as you can in ten seconds are still available and also there's there's an app that I just found before I came today called snappy asses where authors of different ethnicity of different ethnicities of women and you get points for how hard you can slap their asses and they make like really like grotesque noises when you slap their asses so that was one incentive and then also of course the advertising we're surrounded by on a day to day basis which I feel is completely contradictory in terms of its messaging to help to achieve sexual pleasure because it. Basically I feel like it in Western culture we're sold this idea of femininity as passive as waiting for things to happen as waiting for things happen to you as a vulnerable as thin as weak and actually it took nearly three days for me to have an orgasm I had to be pretty active you know.

6:51This is not conducive to good sex and it really really saddens me.

6:57And then also during my research these campaigns were released which are essentially gang rape so I started to design some jolly vaginas and in protest and these were some initial designs for the film then there multi-plane so you can see they've got depth and I like these designs because I felt they were simple and graphical and part I realized if I was going to make these move it probably take about 25 years because I'd have to cut out and twelve of these shapes to make a second so I pretty swiftly moved away from this idea and here is some more cutouts of penises as well.

7:40And I moved back to 2d because I thought it was more of a practical approach but I also thought that you could get more character so you could use the pubes better the labia better and I felt like there was more of a sense character with 2d I then started designing for a specific people I'd voice recorded Luke and town would not be happy that their names are in this presentation.

8:13But these are two guys for you'll see in the film in a minute who had really amazing warm personas and were really fun to design for because as well they were a duo and they had a great rapport between them. So it was trying to tryna cut okay a good balance in terms of character and scale as well so so this was the designer settled on.

8:38And then this was the moment that I made so I made a 15 second test of these guys moving and I sent it to it's nice that. And it's nice that got that got the funding from channel 4 which was very limited so I then.

8:51But I got the go-ahead and I knew it'd be broadcast on her super excited so I sent out this 15 second clip to 12 of my favorite animators from all over the world 11 of whom decided to collaborate with me on it which was so humbling because I'd written about some of these people with my dissertation at uni they were honestly like my absolute idols and what I did was I gave each of them their own character to take ownership of so I've done I'd probably sound recorded about 40 people and split and cut it down to about 20 and then gave each of them their own character which I think works quite well I then did this color palette because I felt like if you're not paying people properly you've got to give them their own create creating you've got to give them creative freedom but I thought that this color palette would link everything in nicely and make a bit more cohesive and and then.

9:46I did one round of feedback for each of the creatives so I animate and I animated about half the film.

9:55And then about the rest the rest was animated by these 12 11 amazing people so for join of feedback most of the people who worked in it were men as well so chyna feedback was always quite funny because I didn't want to be too insensitive as if light sacks if they never seen a vagina before but like for this guy I was like maybe you could make it a bit less like beak of a bird maybe maybe we could make the pubes a bit more like eyebrows so we sense of the eyes but it was only ever one round of feedback didn't want to take the piss and then.

10:31This is actually my favorite sequence from the film it was animated by an amazing guy called mark Prendergast and I'll show you it moving basically this ties a little bit back so so this is this is this is a sequence where the guy who's speaking is talking about how vaginas like rubik's cubes and he doesn't really understand what's going on shout out Freddie Taylor he's here tonight so basically this ties a bit in with dojin at the beginning cuz he rendered it in CG first and then on paper and on like 200 pieces of paper he took it took two weeks off his job in Berlin to do this he has run that again he used as a stencil and did spray paint on paper which I thought was like an amazing hybrid of the digital and the handmade so I'd like to thank it's nice that I'd like to thank channel 4 I'd like to thank all the people who spoke and all the wonderful creatives who worked on it with me let's watch private parts vajayjay pants or bikini that's too tight and pseudo creme I think it's speculum because feminist groups use to meet and with a speculum look at their own and each other's vaginas so just explore what is down there that down there Rubik's Cube sometimes it's like quite straightforward sometimes it doesn't work like that you can be with girls for years and not really understand know you're stroking other China could never be ugly to be cause it's a vagina it's a vagina but I see it does it go really like I'll a be ugly to and I like I like the mystery of not knowing what each I know that each and every vaginas gonna be different try to find where clitoris I think orgasm hop heat when to when I go is about it there's a finger you touch and I've got that snail remember I get that snow I remember that that I rollin cleanse you look it back you curl repellents I don't know Sheldon Missy you know shiny shiny shiny while before playing in this and that.

13:22And we're about to have sex I've got to pull a hair out of my mouth that it's not sexy I don't care I'm down oh that does the JSP shaved good has to be nice and fresh up they just need to shave return for their clothes back on oh they want to be one of those girls but I get a bikini wax cuz you know you want to be like seen as disgusting why do you need to be bald down there it's not necessary a lot of money it was definitely a thing of thinking that it was there was something wrong or that it was it was a dangerous thing to do especially on your bathroom floor at five o'clock in the afternoon after you've eaten at a baccardo if you can't even do it on your own you don't feel comfortable on your own and how we supposed to or has in with someone else masturbating obviously I'm thinking about someone I fancy or like Michael Fassbender didn't mean like you enjoy it you can make apple and yet you've got an actual beautiful boy in front of you why aren't I connecting like for me. Now it's kind of joke like someone's likely to come over that hot snot and we move on just started to feel like I could touch myself well I was having sex to help myself get there and that wasn't an insult more beam flicking please how do you do it have you done it because there was like we like you it's like you wouldn't talk about it out loud close you know fully be embarrassed don't get the past that speed spew you are you do you do yourself you get me good on you just be good know the best moments just a good if you do fall only just came on a cool all 7179 you