Pomegranate Seeds
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| Creator | Samira Damato |
| Year | 2017 |
| Bio | Samira Damato (DE) is a filmmaker who explores various facets of love and nostalgia in her work. With her transnational background, Samira has experienced various cultures as a distanced observer allowing her to perceive the invariable aspects of human expression and utilise them in her own practice. |
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The short-film Surrogate is a story of love, grief and identity-theft. After the death of Jenny, a young woman in her 20s, her boyfriend Andrea and her mother Monica, grieve together. Peace seems to settle over the pair until there is a knock on the door, a young woman who introduces herself as a medium with a message from Jenny.
The scene that will be presented to the audience gives an introduction to each primary character, it is the moment in which Andrea and Monica first meet the medium Sascha.
The film draws on various influences from filmmakers such as Chantal Akerman, David Lynch and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The short-film Surrogate explores facets of emotion experienced around grief, not necessarily focussing upon it. The deification of a lost loved one, an attempt to replace or resolve the space which they once filled and the problematic emotional hardship that comes with surviving.