Your grandma threw away her sadness. Her granddaughter found it.
Lisa Larson is one of Sweden’s most beloved ceramicists, known for her round, playful animal and child figures. But when director Emilia Ekman Larson digs up her grandmother’s 30-year-old discarded sculptures, she can’t help but wonder why they look so sorrowful.
Direction
Granddaughter interrogating grandmother through sculpture—uncomfortable and gorgeous.
Production
Thirty years of buried ceramics as archaeological emotional dig.
Director
Emilia Ekman Larson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lisa Larson's public persona as Sweden's 'ceramic mother' deliberately obscured her private struggles; this film excavates both.
Emilia found the sculptures in her grandmother's actual shed while cleaning it out—she initially thought they were factory rejects.
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