My Grandmother Is an Egg (2021) [N/A]
Featuring:
Yu-Chin Chang, Yu-Hsia Chang, Yu-Jan Chang
Written by:
Wu-Ching Chang
Directed by:
Wu-Ching Chang
Release Date:
April 29, 2021
Original Title:
我的阿婆是一顆蛋
Alternate Titles:
我的阿婆是一顆蛋
Genres:
Animation | Documentary
Production Countries:
Taiwan | United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 9
Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.
My grandmother was a T'ung-yang-hsi. She has lived up to her fate. T'ung-yang-hsi is the traditional practice of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law. From microscopic to macroscopic, from personal witness to general phenomenon in society, the audiences may glimpse the long past, imagine women's situation in our own times, and look forward to striving for real gender equality in the future. Egg is life per se. Eggs are fragile, but at the same time tough. My grandmother is an egg.
