This short animation is intended to be on an eternal loop.

Blood, hot flushes, and tears. Tangled red material voices the internal monstrous. A fear that becomes the mundane every day. Situated in an endless loop, using stop motion to trap viewers in a tiny set. The work becomes a rhythmic and musical piece, highlighting the stillness of an endless cycle as rhythm and movement become stagnant in their repetition. Using short-form animation to represent menstrual depression appreciates the power of stop motion as a medium, the damage of a hormonal cycle is optimistically minimised through a cartoonish presentation that purposely trivialises these intense struggles, depicting what feels like a desperate infinite loop.

Internal horrors are represented through a disembodied wave, externally presenting the horrors of the internal to intensify sound design and synthesis. The sounds of my stomach re-synthesised to provide the wave a surreal power. In loop, sound is unchanging, creating a viewing experience that mimics the tiring and repetitive cycle of depression. This work opens conversation for education by portraying the cultural and internal anxieties toward periods. Though the film intends to highlight the physical and mental limits of the endless loop of menstrual depression, a positive message is found as the loop persists, keep building the raft.