• Lizzie Philps

    PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Lizzie Philps (UK, Bristol) Maternity Leaves (2013) Film/Walking Performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “Maternity Leaves records my exploration of the visceral and performative intersections between walking documentation and maternal ambivalence during the first year of my daughter’s …..

  • Yvonne Montoya

    PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Yvonne Montoya (USA, Arizona) Caroline’s Story: Le beau plus jour de ma vie (2012) Filmed Dance Performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “This dance piece was inspired by my struggles with post-partum depression after the birth of my …..

  • Fiammetta Horvat

    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 …..

  • Liz Hart

    PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Liz Hart (UK, Gloucestershire) Mummy Monster (2016) Filmed Theatre Performance/Live Art ARTIST STATEMENT: “Mummy Monster began it’s life whilst I was spending long hours at home caring for my young family. I was interested in …..

  • Elizabeth Wurst

    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 …..

  • Beatrice Jarvis

    PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Beatrice Jarvis (Ireland, Donegal) A Conversation between Absence and Fern (2015) Original title (gaelic): comhrá idir neamhláithreachta ague raithneach Filmed Performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “Pregnancy initially was a very daunting process and as a land artist …..

  • Sophie Cero

    PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Sophie Cero (UK, Northamptonshire) Manual Labour (wipe) (2016) Performance Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “As part of a series of eight films embedded in the perfectly white walls of Still Life’s gallery/house, Manual Labours (wipe) offers an …..

  • Rachel Jane Dean

    PERFORMING PARENTHOOD 2017 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Rachel Jane Dean (UK, Leeds) Nativity (2014) Filmed Performance ARTIST STATEMENT: “Nativity came out of my fascination with the enduring power of the myth and magic of the Virgin Mary. I worked with film maker …..

  • Townley & Bradby

    BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Townley & Bradby (UK, Norfolk) Between Waking and Sleeping (2014) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “Since 2010 the sites we have been responding to as an artist duo are the physical spaces of our family …..

  • Kristen Palana

    BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Kristen Palana (Myanmar) This Too Shall Pass (2014) Short Film (Animation) ARTIST STATEMENT: “Is it possible to be simultaneously ecstatic and miserable? Will this moment ever end? How I wish it would last forever. …..