Mother Figure Movies

A film essay that intertwines the director's gaze with that of her late mother. Beyond exploring mourning and absence as exclusively painful...

Close friends Belle, Au and Claire are forced to take care of Baby Doll, a child borne of an affair between their friend and a club worker, after her...

A mother figure idealized by the cinema, Empress Elisabeth of Austria did not flourish with her four children. What kind of mother was the rebellious...

Clinging to control after a broken marriage, an overbearing mother begins to lose her grasp on reality.

This project was born when I discovered a letter that my mom had written to a friend before her death. The attention she felt there, its simple and...