Project Detail

Cabbage

Synopsis

CABBAGE reframes language, illuminating relationships of care at its centre. Bureaucratic violence is contrasted with lived experience: the filmmaker centralises her brother’s writing (who is non-verbal and non-mobile) using eye tracking technology, and her mothers reflections, to explore layers of power, and to reclaim it within an ableist paradigm.
Official Selection Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2023

Details

Year: 2023
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 25 min
Format: Digital
Director: Holly Márie Parnell
Producer: Holly Márie Parnell
Executive Producer: FLAMIN
Editor: Holly Márie Parnell
Screenwriter: Holly Márie Parnell
Director of Photography: Holly Márie Parnell
Sound: Jenna Whelan
Principal cast: June Parnell, David Parnell

Genre

Experimental Disabilities

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by FLAMIN (Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network)

Holly Márie Parnell

hollymarieparnell@gmail.com

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