{"id":603,"date":"2026-02-23T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clubvideo.ca\/projects\/mothers-and-monsters\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:38:05","slug":"mothers-and-monsters","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/clubvideo.ca\/en\/projects\/mothers-and-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers and monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mothers and Monsters is a surreal satire that explores modern motherhood and the ideal of family in an era where capitalism reaches its peak.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t

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For a very special celebration, a mother-hostess brought together mothers and their perfect children for a grand banquet. The meal orchestrated by the mother-host is suddenly disrupted by strange disturbances. What lies behind the scenes of this ideal world?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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04<\/span>\/<\/span>Cr\u00e9dits<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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\u00c9dith Jorisch<\/h4>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Patrick Francke-Sirois<\/h4>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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02<\/span>\/<\/span>Intentions<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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As a child, by mimicry, I projected myself into an adult life\u2014a perfect mother standing in front of a beautiful house with a lush green lawn. Today, on the threshold of my thirties and without children, I question this \u201cdream\u201d a great deal: the preconceived notions of happiness, of the fulfilled woman, and of motherhood as the ultimate goal. As if ecstasy lay in giving birth (in holding the status of mother) without that experience leaving any mark on a body that is still expected to attract the gaze.<\/h4>\n

Does this definition of happiness as it relates to womanhood truly belong to me? Was the idea that success lies in motherhood instilled in me?<\/p>\n

With Mothers and Monsters, I wanted to question\u2014ironically\u2014the model of the ideal mother in our consumerist, sensationalist society, and our obsession with a preconceived idea of success.<\/p>\n

In an era where capitalism and the obsession with image reach their peak, where Instagram moms and their influencer babies flood social media, the film explores the ideal of the family as the ultimate goal to be achieved at all costs.<\/p>\n

Drawing inspiration from both American housewives of the 1960s and those of today, I wanted to bear witness to the social pressure weighing on women\u2014an imposed destiny shaped by society\u2014by creating a world in which it would be possible to have children without effort.<\/p>\n

In the upper social classes, women have long been able to hire employees to care for their children and now even have the privilege of choosing not to carry their babies themselves. But then: why do we have babies? \u201cWhere are all the nannies on Instagram\u201d ?<\/p>\n

Fascinated by surrealism and dreams, but also by social phenomena such as gender reveal parties, unboxing, and global systems of exploitation, I wanted to create an allegorical, timeless portrait of the perfect mother\u2014one in which the artificial and the organic, beauty and ugliness, the bourgeoisie and the working class confront one another, and where the viewer is free to decipher the symbols and make them their own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t[ Read more + ]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\u201c\u00c9dith Jorisch dives here into yet another existential subject: motherhood. But beware\u2014not in the way one might expect. Rather, she approaches it in a frankly surreal and satirical manner, oscillating between lightness and heaviness, beauty and ugliness, to the point of nearly brushing against the absurd and the horrific.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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