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. …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Megan Wynne (USA, Virginia) My Puppet (2014) and Her Puppet (2014) Short Films ARTIST STATEMENT: “I use myself and my children in my work to examine the complex and contradictory nature of motherhood and …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen (Denmark) Vagina Eating Husband (2015/16) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “This work deals with issues concerning pregnancy, reproduction and parenthood in a grotesque and mythological way. The text works as the voice …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Byron Karabatsos One Half of One MM (USA, 2013) Short Film (Documentary) ARTIST STATEMENT: “On your own. That’s what I said when I cut the umbilical cord. Now I know that a vital part …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Shoshana Rosenbaum (USA, Washington D.C.) The Goblin Baby (2014) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “In early parenthood, my husband travelled a lot. Late one night, I was downstairs doing the dishes. The old house was …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Magdalena Blom (Sweden) A Child/Ett Barn (2015/16) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “A Child is a short film investigating the dual aspect of the state of the foetus being pure and unaffected yet easily impressionable. …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Michele Jaquis & Jeremy J. Quinn (USA, California) Negotiations (2016) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “Through my artistic practice I examine ways in which people relate to and communicate with each other, and the conflicts …..
BROOD FILM FEST 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Jennifer Hardacker (USA, Oregon) For Summers To Come (2004) Short Film ARTIST STATEMENT: “This work is an exploration of the concept of ‘childhood memories’ and, in particular, how their dependency on visual records such …..
Sarah Irvin (USA, Virginia) Rocking Chair Series (2014/15) Graphite on paper ARTIST STATEMENT: My practice exists within the context of motherhood as a lived experience and social construct. By responding to the biological act of bearing an infant and the …..
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 …..