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Letter to My Mother for My Son. 2022. Carta a mi madre para mi hijo. Directed by Carla Simón. Carla is pregnant and naked, imitating the poses her mother took when she was pregnant with her. Sunlight filters through the windows. You see pictures in Super-8 of mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, smiling, sewing, reciting poems.
Nov 19, 2022 · Overview. Carla is pregnant and naked, imitating the poses her mother took when she was pregnant with her. Sunlight filters through the windows. You see pictures in Super-8 of mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, smiling, sewing, reciting poems.
Made while pregnant with her son, this grainy Super-8 gem from Golden Bear-winner Carla Simón (Alcarràs) glimmers with fecundity. Traveling through time and across generations and mediums—from letter writing and flamenco to various film stocks, it celebrates the promise of new beginnings.
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- Carla Simón
- 24 min
- Ángela Molina
Letter to My Mother for My Son (2022) starring Ángela Molina, Cecilia Gómez, Jesús Carmona and directed by Carla Simón. A young woman travels from the 60s to the present day, via the 80s, crossing the thresholds of femininity and history, until she meets Carla next to the blue sky of the Catalan coast.
Made while pregnant with her son, this grainy Super-8 gem from Golden Bear-winner Carla Simón (Alcarràs) glimmers with fecundity. Traveling through time and across generations and mediums—from letter writing and flamenco to various film stocks, it celebrates the promise of new beginnings.
Pregnant and naked, Carla is imitating her mother’s poses when she was expecting her. Super-8 images burst, with footage of parents and grandparents. Then a young girl travels from the 1960s, to the 1980s, to today, crossing thresholds of womanhood, until she meets with Carla and her newly born son.