POROUS

Cecilia Reeve’s first independent short film, made during her MA at the Royal College of Art (2023).

In a dreamlike narrative, a woman takes a bath and reflects upon her past experiences; submerged in the water she enters a space out of time. It is an existentialist film questioning the boundaries in between the body and the outside world, between water and skin.

Using traditional frame-by-frame animation, Cecilia combines paint on glass, gouache, and digital animation to create a tactile and intimate film.

WINNER: ArtsThread Global graduation prize in collaboration with Gucci 2023

Selected screenings: Aesthetica (2024) In the Palacae (2024) LIAF (2023), BitBang (2023), CutOut (2023), Brighton International Animation Festival (2024)

‘Porous’ was exhibited in ‘Animation Art’ at the Museum of Texas Tech University between March- June 2024 andIn 2025, It premiered on Girls in Film and was awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick.

Porous- Trailer

“ Like swimming through the darkest parts of the unconscious mind.”
— Marigold Warner, 'Its Nice That'
“A beautifully hypnotic sensorial experience”
— Harry Hoskin, creative director Spring Studios
“Cecilia Reeve visually ponders skin as a boundary to show us that an individual body is as complex and porous as an ecosystem... we are struck by the complex and unfamiliar territories within our own bodies.”
— Carol Flueckiger, Animation as Art, Musueum of TTU

Process Video for the making of Porous