Motherboard
Victoria Mapplebeck
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Victoria Mapplebeck
Synopsis
A smartphone feature documentary exploring motherhood, filmed over 20 years by BAFTA award-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck.
At the age of 38, Victoria found herself single, pregnant and broke. She was forced to abandon her career in TV, instead turning the camera on herself and her son, Jim. Victoria began shooting with her old DVCAM before switching to five generations of smartphones, from the iPhone 6 to the iPhone 15. She recorded hundreds of hours of footage, capturing each twist and turn in Jim’s life, from the thumbs-up he gave during her first scan, to his first day at college.
MOTHERBOARD charts the trials, traumas and occasional triumphs of lone parenthood. We see the good times, the holidays, the birthdays, the bedtime routine, Jim’s love of singing and dancing. But we also see the bad times, Victoria’s breast cancer treatment, the disappointments Jim felt when he met with his dad for the first time and in his late teens, his struggles with depression and binge drinking.
MOTHERBOARD is the antidote to the judgmental and unrealistic expectations we have about motherhood, creating an honest, funny and relatable film for any mother who has wept tears of both joy and frustration
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2024 - World premiere
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Details
- Year
- 2024
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 91 min
- Format
- Smartphone 4K
- Director
- Victoria Mapplebeck 1st Feature
- Producer
- Victoria Mapplebeck
- Executive Producer
- Debbie Manners
- Editor
- Victoria Mapplebeck, Oli Bauer; Assistant Editor: Anton Yavorsky
- Director of Photography
- Victoria Mapplebeck; Additional Camera: Mark Hammond, Jim Mapplebeck, Shira Finch
- Sound
- John Wakefield
- Music
- Ed Seed, Jamie Perera
- Creative Consultant
- Jim Mapplebeck
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 1st July 2024
