Mom

During his classics study at Boston University, Mark Rance made a short film about his mother, simply entitled mom. For a fortnight two friends had taught him the essence of filmmaking, and in the third week he started filming his 47-year-old mother with a borrowed 16 mm camera. Because her children had commenced their studies, his mother decided to resume her own career as a fashion designer and go back to school. Rance recorded one of the projects his mother participated in: a fashion show. The film has become a testament of the resignation, anger and confusion of a mother who has completed the first part of her life, and for whom the second and far less distinct part begins. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)