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Milk

Milk

Miranda Stern
United Kingdom
2024
21 min
Dutch Premiere
Best of Fests
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Synopsis

How can you miss something you never really had? Filmmaker Miranda Stern knows little about her mother, who died when Miranda was five months old. Now that she is recovering from a heroin addiction and contemplating motherhood herself, she wants to break the silence. By opening up the old boxes of things, she hopes to discover the mother she never knew. But first she needs to confront her own feelings of guilt and shame.

For this liberatingly honest graduation film, Stern assembled the messy, imperfect, broken, joyful, sad and desperate bits of life. She rewinds, pauses and slows down the footage as if she might find her mother hiding somewhere between the frames. In a remarkable montage she embraces the very absences, gaps and silences.

Stern’s piecing together of the digital, Super8, 16mm and VHS footage resembles the Japanese art of kintsugi, where the pieces are imperfect and the cracks remain visible. Just like with the making of films, this journey will never really be completed.

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Tickets & Times
Sat, november 16
Part of Shorts: Next of Kin
20:00 – 21:46
Pathé City 5

Sun, november 17
Part of Shorts: Next of Kin, Q&A hosted by CUT committee
20:00 – 21:45
Tuschinski 6

Tue, november 19
Part of Shorts: Next of Kin
11:00 – 12:19
Kriterion 1

Thu, november 21
Part of Shorts: Next of Kin
13:00 – 14:08
Het Documentaire Paviljoen: De Spiegel

Sat, november 23
Part of Shorts: Next of Kin,
20:30 – 22:13
Cinema De Vlugt
Credits
21 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: English
Director
    Miranda Stern
    Miranda Stern
Production
    Ashionye Ogene for National Film & Television School
    Ashionye Ogene for National Film & Television School
Cinematography
    Julyan Sinclair,
    Essi Hyrkki
    Julyan Sinclair,
    Essi Hyrkki
Editing
    Yiwei Pu
    Yiwei Pu
Sound
    Liam Sharpe
    Liam Sharpe
Sound Design
    Liam Sharpe
    Liam Sharpe
Music
    Rotem Frimer
    Rotem Frimer
Narration
    Miranda Stern
    Miranda Stern
World Sales
    The National Film & Television School
    The National Film & Television School
Screening copy
    National Film and Television School
    National Film and Television School

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