“I LOVE YOU MORE THAN MY OWN SKIN” ― FRIDA KAHLO

Recently married couple Lucy and Christopher are coping with their grief in opposite ways after the stillbirth of their child. Christopher just wants life to continue as normal but Lucy sees evidence of the continued presence of her child everywhere.

After Christopher leaves for work, Lucy’s attention is drawn to a sound emanating from the room at the end of the corridor which seems to frighten and attract her in equal measure. As she approaches the sound’s source, the corridor walls become sticky and the steady drip of water transforms into something altogether more supernatural. Lucy finds herself drawn into a birth of her own.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

My own experience of becoming a mother, like many other womens’, was far removed from the wonderland Western society insists it must be. The birth of my daughter coincided with the end of my relationship and death of my father. I was racked with fear I too would die or lose my child. I found that the utopian image of motherhood as a state of uncomplicated, boundless bliss, only served to intensify my sense of isolation, guilt, and despair that the reality didn’t match up.

At around this time I came across Frida Kahlo’s work ‘my birth’ which she had painted after a miscarriage. The way in which the painting captures the overlap between intergenerational birth and death struck a deep chord within me. Although the dialogue around female identity has made great strides in recent decades, there is still most definitely a straight-jacket around the subject of motherhood and its complex, emotional layers.

This film is my exploration of motherhood and its greatest wound, grief.

CREDITS & SPECIFICATIONS

Filmed at East End Studios

Inspired by Catherine Anne-Toupin’s play ‘Right Now’

© Honeyfly Films

Running time – 08:36
Genre – Psychological Thriller
Completion Date – September 28th, 2020
Country of Production – United Kingdom
Shooting Format – RED
Aspect Ratio – 16:9
Film Colour – Colour

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