BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Lu Heintz (USA, Rhode Island) Learning To Letter, Tandem, Lead/Follow (2014) Three Short Films ARTIST STATEMENT: “My work is personal, but it is not necessarily about me. The personal is a conceptual realm I …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Sarah Sudhoff (USA, Texas) Surrender (2013) Short Film (documentation of a private performance) ARTIST STATEMENT: “Over the last ten years my work has consistently interwoven themes of gender, science, and personal experience. I am …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Sasha Waters Freyer (USA, Virginia) You Can See the Sun in Late December (2010) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “A reflection on winter light and maternity. Feeling isolated at home with a small child and …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Jana Kasalová (Czech Republic, Prague) State (2012) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “When I lived in Madrid, I lived just a few blocks from the Prado. There I came upon a particular image of the …..
Early parenthood is now identified by many people as one of the most stressful and isolating periods in life. A major international study recently concluded that 20% of mothers and at least 10% of new fathers currently suffer from post-natal …..
Advertising executives have known for decades that there are few words more effective than ‘self-worth’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘free choice’ in making Western women sit up and listen. Every time they and their partners now read these words in magazines, on …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Csilla Nagy and Gábor Kasza (Hungary, Budapest) Birth & ReBirth by Cipolla Collectiva (2013) Video of a one-off ritual performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “In April 2013 I re-collaborated with photographer Gábor Kasza to create an image …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Courtney Kessel (USA, Ohio) In Balance With (2012) Performance documentation on film (5 minute edit) ARTIST STATEMENT: “In this performance my six-year-old daughter, Chloe, and I sit at opposite ends of an empty sixteen-foot seesaw. …..
Rocío Sáenz (México) Dreaming About A Killer Dog (2015) Mixed media on digital print on canvas ARTIST STATEMENT: “The superposition of incoherent and hilarious elements within my work is a continuous fusion required to express The Quotidian Chaos. My drawing, …..
Rachel Epp Buller (USA, Kansas) The Food Landscape (2007/8) Food based screen prints (in 10 hand-bound books) ARTIST STATEMENT: The Food Landscape is a conceptual project that visually narrates the end of my breastfeeding journey. Based on a food log …..