THE FREEMARTIN CALF (2010)
GENRE: EXPERIMENTAL FICTION RUNNING TIME: 40' FORMAT: SUPER 8 + 16MM WITH FABIENNE MÉSENGE, ORNA ASSOULINE & NICK ALLDRIDGE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK BY FRÉDÉRIC D. OBERLAND WITH GASPAR CLAUS WATCH TEASER DESCRIPTION: A young girl and her mother brave two very separate realities over the course of the same day, fueled by a dogged desire to both fulfil and reject the societal roles imposed upon them. The Freemartin Calf is a troubling visual odyssey, a quotidian fiction, a dive into the psyche of a young mother raising her preadolescent daughter (…) Visual symphonies play soundtrack to the poetic voice-over, expanding into a series of images of rare filmic beauty (…). We are shaken by the truth that resides in this innovative expression of the female experience. Raphaël Bassan |