Lingual, Gertrude Moser-Wagner, 1992, Austria, 8’
For 8 minutes we observe the eagerness of a suckling calf trying to suck a hand. A voracious image that makes us think about the bonds of dependence created between a mother and her offspring.
Der Schöne, die Best, Mara Mattuschka, 1993, Austria, 10’
For 8 minutes we observe the eagerness of a suckling calf trying to suck a hand. A voracious image that makes us think about the bonds of dependence created between a mother and her offspring.
Working with care, Leeds Animation Workshop, 1999, Reino Unido, 15’
For 8 minutes we observe the eagerness of a suckling calf trying to suck a hand. A voracious image that makes us think about the bonds of dependence created between a mother and her offspring.
Breathing, Guy Sherwin, 2011, Reino Unido, 3’
Guy Sherwin investigates the effect of light on the domestic space whilst abstracting the body of his pregnant wife. A living organism, a shelter that protects and moves to the rhythm of one breath, which is actually two.
Alpsee, Matthias Müller, 1994, Alemania, 13’30”
The absence of the father figure is the omnipresent presence in this symbolic film with an aesthetic akin to 1950s adverts. A mother devotes her time to looking after the home whilst her son watches her and longs for a closer relationship, something that never seems to happen.
My name is Oona, Gunvor Nelson, 1969, EEUU, 9’18”
The absence of the father figure is the omnipresent presence in this symbolic film with an aesthetic akin to 1950s adverts. A mother devotes her time to looking after the home whilst her son watches her and longs for a closer relationship, something that never seems to happen.
Entretien avec ma mère / Natalia Akerman, Chantal Akerman, 2007, Bélgica, 27’
Chantal Akerman interviews her mother in the kitchen. Here their rapport, very much present in most of her filmography, can be dissected as a conversation about the author's films unfolds. Natalia's past, the war and the home all come up but, above all, her mother's pride: "It's funny, all your films have something of me in them. Like Hitchcock, who appears in all his films”.
A program by Julia Martos
