IG: @macejbmedia

Life in Death

Life in Death was born from my experience as a queer, gender non-conforming person and my religious upbringing. It is a stop motion short film in a fictional version of the afterlife I created. The film acts like an informational video, guiding the viewer through a purgatory-like plane called the VOID into the afterlife. The three characters are all queer in some way but also hold positions of power in the religious hierarchy, subverting a long history of bias toward the LGBT community from organized religions. This film aims to explore complex relationships with spirituality and represent queer bodies in a context they are often excluded from.

Bio

Mace Button is an animator and designer specializing in Stop Motion and 2D animation. Their love of story, daydreaming, and an overgrown imagination led them from the Lego stop-motion videos they made as a kid to creating high-production animated films. Seeing the ideas in their head become physical puppets alive on screen, pushes them to keep the dying art of Stop motion alive.


When they’re not tediously moving small puppets they enjoy jumping into the ocean, boat watching, and getting lost in their hyper fixations.