MOTHER'S DAY (US, 1948, James Broughton)
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“Humorous, satirical, and overwhelmingly skillful, this ironic camera exploration of the artist's world of memory, imagination and perception is among the finest, most challenging films yet produced in this country.” —Arthur Knight
One of the first major works of the San Francisco film movement, MOTHER’S DAY is a painfully humorous recollection of childhood in which a family of singular adults recreate their infancy by behaving as they did when growing up.
As noted by programmers at the Melbourne International Film Festival, “Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity.”
“MOTHER’S DAY for me is one of the great films in film history.” —Peter Kubelka
MOTHER'S DAY
(US, 1948)
Director: James Broughton
Director of Photography: Frank Stauffacher
Music: Howard Brubeck
- 21 minutes
- 16mm
- B&W
- Sound
Distribution Format/s: DSL/Downloadable 1080p .mp4 file on server
Published By: GME
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