In her graduate work for Tokyo
University of the Arts’ animation programme, Mari Miyazawa (宮澤真理) once again brings a bakery to
life. As in her earlier film Twins
in the Bakery (ツインズ イン ベーカリー, 2013), applies her knowledge of food art and
food styling to create an imaginative stop motion animation using real food.
It is after-hours in a kitchen and a
piping bag begins to ice a multi-layered cake all by itself. A Baumkuchen – whose layers resemble the
rings of a tree trunk – indicates that it is feeling left out as three slices
vie for the piping bag’s attention. The
piping bag complies by putting florets onto them like heads. After a dissolve, the slices of Baumkuchen
evolve further into little figures that resemble girls in dresses. Soon, they are helping the piping bag
decorate cupcakes and the large cake.
Some troublesome spiders made of oreo cookies spice up the action a bit.
A new figure is made entirely of pink
and white icing and resembles a little girl dressed like a ballerina. She not only enthusiastically decorates but
also dances. Other figures join in and
get a little bit carried away. The
decorations of the cakes and themselves crescendo along with the music the
piping bag has to step in and change the tempo.
A fanciful little tale, Miyazawa has
stepped up the complexity and emotional content of her work from Twins in the Bakery. This film relies only on image and music (no
narration as in her earlier work) and it is all the better for it. It is great to see an animator bringing together
her love of food to animation.
Follow her blog on food art at http://www.e-obento.com/
Follow her on twitter: @Mari_Miyazawa
Catherine Munroe Hotes 2014
