2005 Film Index Back to Main Site		Back Post Partum Canada / 10 minutes Directed and Written by Marie-Josee St-Pierre Cinematography by Korbett Matthews & Benoit Beaulieu Sound Design by Jonah Kamphorst Official Selection Monrtreal Int'l, Washington DC Independent Film Festival "When I was two months old, my mother abandoned me to my grandmother. She could no longer bear the sound of my incessant crying." So begins St-Pierre's "Post Partum." The filmmaker’s subterranean, dream-like visual poem shot in 16mm is an image-rich meditation on three generations of maternal relations. Memories include vignettes of grayish shore lines, houses, and peering faces placed on sheets that are hanging on a clothesline to dry.