Above: ‘I Still Haven’t Found The One’ by Abbey Sacks.
The Animated Woman: A Symposium on Gender Bias in Animation was held at CalArts in Dec. 2015. Students from The Animated Woman class, taught by faculty Erica Larsen-Dockray (Film/Video BFA 09, MFA 12), presented research and responses on the issue of how female characters are represented in animation.
In I Still Haven’t Found ‘The One,’ Abbey Sacks’ (Film/Video BFA 19) film collage, clips of women in traditional media roles (housewife, sex object) play over and over, accompanied by voiceovers of women from movies talking about nothing but dating, getting married and finding “The One.”