CRYING FOR THE MOON
Film Still: Super 8 stop motion
“She pretends she has a basket of pearls just in order to look at the colour of the moon since she is lunar, …pretends she isn’t lunar, pretends she isn’t crying inside.” - Clarice Lispector (excerpt from An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures, 1968)
WHAT HAPPENS TO A BODY WHEN …
Crying for the Moon is a 9 minute experimental short that explores a feminist universe. The story is part memoir, part cosmology and part folk magic, drawing on ancestral roots. The film’s narrator takes you through the phases of the lunar cycle and a woman’s menstrual cycle to address how one’s self-perception is shaped and re-shaped by the experience of infertility, and examines what these shapes and forms might look and sound like on the screen.
Shot on 16mm/Super 8 film/4K, this hybrid work blends experimental and nonfiction to present an astral narrative of womanhood and otherworld cosmologies.
This film project was generously funded by the LIFT Support Grant 2022 - in memory of Mara Da Costa Reis and completed in 2024.
Film Still: The Golden Tarot: The Visconti-Sforza Deck (Mary Packard and Rachel Clowes)