Mothersbane (short film)

Mothersbane is a personal documentary that explores the filmmaker’s ambivalent relationship to his mother’s physical disabilities and chronicles his attempts to be at peace with her suffering and disfigurement. It is a mixed-media portrait, alternating between the present – in which his mother battles a staph infection and prepares for a major surgery – and recollections of the filmmaker’s past. The film draws upon a variety of poetic evocations, including Super 8 recreations of childhood memories, to express the love and anxiety, and the protectiveness and dread, that has defined his relationship with his mother.