I wanted to make a film about solo parenting in all its messiness, the highs, but also the lows. I shot with my smartphone, almost daily, for nearly two decades.
- Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
Lollipop is the polar opposite of middle class fantasies of working class life.
These films and TV series capture the pain, happiness, chaos and comedy of the hero’s journey that is motherhood.
Many women struggle to maintain a career in film after having children. But there are creative avenues to be explored to circumvent the gatekeepers, as filmmaker Victoria Mapplebeck discovered.
The gap between the idea for a film and it reaching its final audience has never been so small.
What will the future of film look like?
We don’t just hold our phones, we cradle them – and make films like this one with them.
During the February half term break, I took my son to the Hayward gallery to see the new Martin Creed show. The highlight of the exhibition is a space in which 20 people are squeezed into a small room…
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