PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Fiammetta Horvat (UK/France) Mystery Dough (2014) Stop Motion Video Performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “Seven years ago I fell pregnant and inevitably the transformation of my body began. I experienced motherhood as the ultimate transformation and birth …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Elizabeth Wurst (Germany/Peru) Super Pregnant Gangsta Bitch (2015) and Push & Pull (2016) Video Performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “Super Pregnant Gangsta Bitch shows me performing in my ninth month of pregnancy to a medley of pop …..
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 …..
Mila Oshin (UK, Exeter) Passage (2016) Poetry collection, music album, short film “I am moved by the sustained anguish yet calm contained in these poems.” Dr Andrea Liss, author ‘Feminist Art and the Maternal’, USA “I love the poems so …..
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. …..
PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Muffie Connelly (USA, Oregon) Induction Ceremony (2013) Dance performance ARTIST STATEMENT: Induction Ceremony is a 53 minute dance performance film directly resulting from choreographer Muffie Connelly’s personal experience with isolation and postpartum depression. This work …..
Amanda West (USA, California) The Summer You Were Born (2012) Song/Music Video ARTIST STATEMENT: I had always looked forward to birth. When at last it was my own birthing time, I breathed and moaned and meditated through it and in …..