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Delphyne

Nick Ilott

Synopsis

DELPHYNE (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance, taboos around menstrual blood are told through a fabric-themed metaphor, and the conflict between a mother-daughter relationship. The script is stylised in a theatrical form, taking the works of Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as a background and filmed in rural Suffolk. The tone draws on Petrushevskaya’s depictions of intense female-driven, claustrophobic family relationships particularly between generations of women who pull at each other in close quarters. Both a folk and fairy-tale element exists to the progress of the film, relating to the directors own heritage. The film is shot in East Anglia, Suffolk.

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Details

Year: 2021
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 13 min 22 sec
Format: Digital
Director: Vasilisa Forbes
Producer: First Films
Executive Producer: Vasilisa Forbes
Editor: Vasilisa Forbes
Screenwriter: Vasilisa Forbes
Director of Photography: Ezequiel Romero
Sound: Florian Sauvaire & Chris Lockington
Composer: Tilly Moses
Principal cast: Olivia Caley, Josie Ayers
Line Producer: Elena Valeri
DOP: Ezequiel Romero
AC: Jack Lightfoot
Gaffer: Simon Battensby
Focus: Rob Hayward
Runner: Louis Sare
Director’s Assistant: Andrew Hancock
Sound: Delfina Witkowska
MUA: Frances Straker
Sound: Florian Sauvaire & Chris Lockington
Vocals: Tilly Moses
Grade: Michael Pearce
Stills: Nick Illot
Interior Location Manager: Fraser Williams
Credits Design: Sam Norris

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

First Films

11 Copperfield House
Wolseley Street
London
SE1 2BN

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