Dear Mom

Film Maker
Bonder, Diane
Year
1996
Country
U.S.A.
Language
Format
16mm
Length
13
Genre
experimental
Category
Mental Health, Portraits, Work about Women, Work by Women

“Dear Mom” is a story of the formation of a girl’s identity in relation to her powerful mother, her matriarchal family, and domestic fantasies created by melodramas of the 40s and 50s. When the young girl’s fantasy of matricide comes true with the untimely death of her Mother, she finds herself at a crossroads. She is left to reconstruct her own identity and find out that her Mother is more complex than she imagines.

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