# animate! › Films › doubled up by Samantha Moore › synopses

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, digital drawing, collage animation, motherhood, twins, pregnancy, autobiography, animated documentary, filmmaker, animation director

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**doubled up** a film by Samantha Moore

2004, 6 min 30 sec

### animate! synopsis

Sam’s film is about her own attempt to impose order upon chaos in the context of recently becoming a mother of multiples (twin boys).

Acknowledging Mary Kelly’s [Post-Partum Document](http://www.gfound.or.at/C1256D2B002F8F0A/GOTO/KELLY_ENGLISCH) , the work uses diagrams, layers and multiple perspectives to process chaotic information into a recognisable and functional structure. Sound by Prix Italia-winning [Adam Goddard](http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/01summer/f03.htm) , Toronto.

### one sentence synopsis

An autobiographical animated film about coping with twins.

### short synopsis

A short autobiographical animated film about the chaos that a multiple pregnancy and birth can bring, and the filmmaker’s bewildered response.

### long synopsis

A short autobiographical animated film about the chaos that a multiple pregnancy and birth can bring. Using multiple layers and perspectives from mother, artist, children and medical professionals, the fractured experience is unravelled and collaged to make a workable order from the pandemonium.

Created digitally, the film is an opulent and multi-faceted reworking of home video, children’s artwork and found objects.

**doubled up** film, stills and other materials © Samantha Moore 2004