Cipka: The Animated Short Film About Masturbation You Need To Watch

Written, directed and some animation done by Renata Gąsiorowska, Cipka or Pussy when translated from Polish to English is a thrilling, hilarious animated short film released in 2016.

The synopsis tell us that this short is about “ A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.”

I initially stumbled upon this film thanks to Pussypedia, a free, bilingual, inclusive encyclopedia of the pussy* available online. ( *they propose a new gender-and-organ-inclusive use of the word.) I was a Kickstarter campaign backer and I was stocked to see their site with all its resources and links finally launch, I was exploring their masturbation tag and found this glorious gem, Cipka and knew I had to wax poetically about it.

The film starts to our female protagonist, chilling at home — the opening shots are of her with a cup of tea and making the motions of stirring, back and forth. It’s a motion that she’ll do again and again in another way later that’s much more pleasing. After mindlessly scrolling through what’s on the tv, out girl slips into a more pleasurable activity…