Maggie McConnell

BFA in Art & Design

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Creature

Creature depicts the human ability to make a home for oneself. Self psychologists like Heinz Kohut tell us that we project the notion of home onto many diverse locations. We see our homes as extensions of ourselves and thus have complex relationships with them. As we travel between the familiar and the unfamiliar, our concept of who we are changes. Creature portrays this with the surreal depiction of individuals as they travel from the outside world to their homes. We follow one woman, Imogen's, commute between the two and see, through her eyes, others doing the same. Maggie McConnell is a 2D animator from Michigan interested in using animation to depict the notion of home. Her background in illustration helps her create small worlds she’d like to live in.

Creature: a short film by Maggie McConnell


A still from the film. Two people sit, talking outside of a small house that sits on stilts in the mountains. There is a clothes line hung from the roof and the windows in the house are lit. A train passes by below them.

An intimate conversation outside of a silted mountain home

A still from the film. Three people sit on a stoop in a city, talking and laughing in the evening. Some of the windows in the buildings surrounding them are lit while others are dark. There is a convenience store next to the stoop the people sit on.

An evening stoop congregation from the perspective of a passing train

A still from the film. Two people sit together on a fire escape in a city at dusk. A train on an elevated platform passes by. There are party lights pulsing in the windows of the building next to the fire escape.

A fire escape rendezvous seen from the train Imogen rides

A still from the film. A train on an elevated, stilted platform passes through the mountains. Above the train, in the mountains, four houses sit on stilts. They have telephone towers that are lit up in the night.

A stilted mountain village on the train route

The film poster. A train on an elevated, stilted platform passes through the mountains. Above the train, in the mountains, four houses sit on stilts. They have telephone towers that are lit up in the night. The title,

Film poster for Creature

The film poster. A train on an elevated, stilted platform passes through the mountains. Above the train, in the mountains, four houses sit on stilts. They have telephone towers that are lit up in the night. The title,

Film poster for Creature

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