Her Worm

Directed by Rune Callewaert · Animation, Drama, History · 7 min

Inside a dark and moody living room in 1970’s Flanders, a love triangle ensues between a housewife, her husband and her own discarded tapeworm.

A housewife seeks comfort in a peculiar and personal specimen kept close by her husband. With newfound confidence and the specimen - her own discarded tapeworm - as a friend, she thinks of a way out of her unhappy marriage. When her husband’s jealousy takes a turn for the worst, she plots revenge and escapes the repressive household. An absurd, but sincere stop-motion fable and surrealist ode to Chantal Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman' (1975).