Your mom won't talk about her past. So you make a film about Jane Fonda instead.
“I ask my mother about her past feminist commitment, and why she made a child on her own. She doesn’t answer me. I want to pierce the mystery of my mother. I discover the women’s movement of the 1970s, an activist feminist cinema, and the woman filmmaker that I am changes. I meet and testify to the transmission of a memory of feminist struggles through collective cinematographic practices.” Anna Salzberg
Direction
Salzberg turns her own silences into the film's architecture.
Editing
Seamlessly braids home movies, archives, and present-day testimony.
Director
Anna Salzberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references how 1970s feminist activists reclaimed their bodies and images—Fonda's blonde bombshell persona was itself a performance she later rejected.
Salzberg belongs to a wave of French female documentarians using first-person cinema to explore how political movements live in domestic spaces.
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