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Lacrimony

Girls in Film

3.12 mins

Dir Jesse May Fisher 

LACRIMONY performs the potency of female corporeality through ecstatic ritual. Tracing the archetype of the Witch, with her understanding of herbal medicine, fertility and the body, LACRIMONY imagines a gestational rite and honours the significance of ceremonial ritual during transitions of the body. Like the witch, the characters in the film operate within duality (good/bad) - their intentions remain veiled as their movements unfold within the earthy space.

Director Jesse May Fisher says: 'LACRIMONY responds to a personal history (a matrilineal mythology) - a story of my great-grandmother’s mental illness and institutionalisation in the 1950s after child birth. Back then, postpartum depression was sometimes called milk fever - it was thought that the breast milk went bad, fevered the brain and caused madness in the mother. Milk fever’s truth is unsettled and obscure. Passed down on the tongue of my grandmother it exists as an oral history and is therefore aligned with folkloric modes of knowledge.'

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