Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of viewing Irene Lusztig's latest film, The Motherhood Archives. I worked on this film while it was still in production in Cambridge during Irene's fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute. The film was the first in a series curated by the Schlesinger Library, "Cliffe Connections: Films by Radcliffe Grads and Fellows," which is free and open to the public.
For more information, please see the film's website, facebook page, and the companion website for the film, The Worry Box Project.
Here is a description of the film: "Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s
feminist filmmaking are woven together to excavate hidden histories of
childbirth in the twentieth century. Assembling an archive of over 100
educational, industrial, and medical training films, The Motherhood Archives
inventively untangles the complex, sometimes surprising genealogies of maternal
education...Revealing a world of intensive training, rehearsal, and
performative preparation for the unknown that is ultimately incommensurate with
experience, The Motherhood Archives becomes a meditation on the maternal body
as a site of institutional control, ideological surveillance, medical
knowledge, and nationalist state intervention."
To see the trailer, please visit this link: TRAILERFor more information, please see the film's website, facebook page, and the companion website for the film, The Worry Box Project.
