Motherless - Feature Film

Writer/Director: Isabel Peppard Producers: Virginia Whitwell, Nick Batzias

Developed with the assistance of Vicscreen and Screen Australia

Motherless is a gothic horror/fantasy that speaks to the marginalised place of women in the art world and the loss of our creative role models.

Synopsis

Raised in her father’s insular art world, Grace has become a strange and cloistered woman, consumed by her job at her father’s gallery, and their oddly intimate relationship.  When a chaotic artist, Kate, is granted a residency, Grace’s ordered facade starts to crumble and she is plagued by visions of a nightmarish clay world. As fantasy and reality collide Grace is forced to reckon with the monstrous truth of her own identity and the mysterious presence that haunts the gallery.