Ghosts
The hardest sound for a parent to hear. What if it never, ever stopped?
Ghosts is a study of hyper feminine natal anxiety and unfolding loneliness. It is the first co-directed piece by Rebecca Palmer and Alice Millar and the first co-production between Earthing Productions and Light Green Cabbage.
“Rebirthing domestic surrealism in independent film. The continuing collaboration between Alice & Rebecca nudges at the edges of discomfort , growth & what it means to be socialised as a woman.”
“Those of us born into girl bodies will almost inevitably experience some form of natal anxiety during our lives. An unwanted baby doll. Periods. Abortion. Birth. Miscarriage. Still birth. Infertility. Postpartum psychosis. Empty nest syndrome. This is not an exhaustive list. Our relationship to motherhood is as individual as a fingerprint and deeply provocative. It makes animals of us. Motherhood has been the most surreal experience of my life & the most consuming. So what does that mean for my work? What does it mean to make art when you are mothering or caring? How is it possible? It’s not like you can change your mind...
The Mother in Ghosts, is she in it, through it, beyond it? Is she writing it, living it as we watch her? What is it? Every human being trails the ghosts of what might have been behind them and occasionally those phantoms clutch at us, often as we clear a threshold. Ghosts focuses on the underbelly, the turning milk, the dirty foot on a clean floor, the rotten fruit, the malice of a white shirt. The tumultuous, everyday politics of our bodies.”