Mother Nature: Between Man and Child
This experimental short is one of the five most-watched on Nowness.
Synopsis
”For most men, the most beautiful thing they will ever see is the body of a naked woman. For most women, it is the face of a first-born child.”
Accolades
• Over six million views on YouTube, in the top five most popular on the Nowness channel.
Nudity warning
Don’t watch if that will bother you.
Natasja Fourie | South Africa | 2016 | 2m
”In the film I wanted to challenge long-held stereotypes and sentimental views of motherhood by looking at the body and the identity of the mother/ “I also wanted to counter our culture’s puritanical fear of the ripe and fertile female form in a truthful moving portrait of motherhood, by questioning and disrupting assumptions without being judgmental and inviting the audience to stare and to demystify the mother figure.”
Natassja Fourie on Nowness
Want to watch & discuss with a friend?