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Dear Mother, I Meant to Write about Death
27th(2022) Wide Angle
Family/Child · True Story · Women
- CountryUnited States/China
- Production Year2022
- Running Time65min
- Format DCP
- ColorColor
Program Note
A filmmaker daughter studying in a foreign country belatedly learns of her
mother’s cancer. Her mother has hidden it from her, lest she worry, but the
daughter feels upset. The mother has been a doctor for thirty years, and she
has thought as much about death as about living well. As the hospital has
been her playground, the daughter is familiar with the scene of death, but
the thought of losing her mother scares her. Before we know it, the film that
seemed like a personal essay about a mother’s illness and the daughter’s
care soon turns its gaze to the more fundamental question about death
through patients at the crossroads of life and death, their guardians who
have to say goodbye, the medical staff’s high-intensity labor, the burden
and threat they must bear. The film asks the tough question: “How should
we face death?” It then answers the question by affirming life once again.
(JEONG Jihye)
Director
CHEN Siyi
Siyi Chen is a documentary filmmaker based in China and New York. She received a BA in World History and Chinese Literature from Peking University and an MA in News and Documentary from New York University. Before becoming an independent documentary filmmaker, she worked as a video journalist and produced many short documentaries that appeared on CNN and PBS. Dear Mother, I Meant to Write about Death is her directorial debut film.
Photo
Credit
- Director CHEN Siyi 첸시이
- Producer Violet FENG, Siyi CHEN, Ruohan XU
- Cast
- Cinematography Siyi CHEN
- Editor Emelie MAHDAVIAN, Mette CHENG MUNTHE-KAAS, Siyi CHEN
- Sound Carol Yan LI
- Music B6
- Production Company
Wooden Fish Pictures (doing business as Introvert Films)
China
2nd floor, Building NO1. Jing Yuan, No.3 Guangqu Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing
siyi.chen.pku@gmail.com
Fish + Bear Pictures
CNEX Foundation