Sorrow had a baby
17 min HD Film
Colour 16:9, 2021
aemi Film Commission 2021
Supported by Arts Council of Ireland
'I absorbed the women in my life as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face.’
Vivian Gornick
Sorrow had a baby explores the mother-daughter relationship through multiple lenses: memory, beauty, and inheritance. Who writes the stories in a family? Who can change them?
Director
Editor
Writers
Images
Composer
Colourist
Sound Design
Myrid Carten
Sabine Groenewegen
Myrid Carten, Sabine Groenewegen
Myrid Carten
Karsten Fundal
Michael Higgins
Stefan Smith