Bunny Short Film

I found the short film Bunny to be cute as we were watching it, but I didn’t really understand it’s meaning or latent narrative until we unpacked it as a class. The oven serves as this symbol of power, as it produces great heat which changes the substance of the things put into it. Similarly, death is the ultimate transformation. The buzzing of the timer on the oven symbolizes that the Bunny’s time is up, further emphasized as the oven goes crazy with power and light. The oven’s strange acting out communicates the mysterious. The Bunny, too, is drawn into the mystery and sticks her head into the oven. From her point of view, we see that the speckled inside of the oven gives way to a speckled starry sky and the oven becomes a passageway between worlds. After unpacking this meaning as a class, I viewed the film much differently, as it was now rich with meaning and symbolism and not just a fly pestering a poor old rabbit as she tried to make a cake.