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by Lynne Sachs
12 min. 2024
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ended a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion in the United States. “Contractions” takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic. We listen to an obstetrician and a reproductive rights activist who movingly lay out these vital issues. We watch 14 women and their male allies who witness and perform with their backs to the camera. In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, they “speak” with the full force of their collective presence.
Featuring: Dr. Kimberly Looney, Anonymous Driver
Performers: SaBrenna Boggan, Chase Colling, Shana J. Crispin, Kimberly Hooper-Taylor, Coe Lapossy, A. Lloyd, Audrey May, Vanessa Mejia, Natalie Richmond, Krista Scott, Neal Trotter, J. Wright, Nubia Yasin
Director: Lynne Sachs
Co-producers: Emily Berisso, Laura Goodman, Lynne Sachs
Cinematographer
Sean Hanley
Editor
Anthony Svatek
Sound Design
Kevin T. Allen
Distribution: Kino Rebelde, Canyon Cinema, Film-Makers Cooperative, Light Cone
° Short Film Award, Mimesis Documentary Festival
° Best Women’s Film, Society for Photographic Education
° Cinema Eye Nomination, Documentary Short Award
° True/False Film Fest. United States °Cosmic Rays Film Festival. United States °Ann Arbor Film Festival ° Onion City Experimental Film Festival ° Prismatic Ground Film Festival ° Moviate Underground Film Festival ° Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University ° DocumentaMadrid International Film Festival. Spain °
VIENNA SHORTS International Shorts Film Festival. Austria ° PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art | "Sentient Disobedients", Canada ° DC/DOX Film Festival. )
Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Contractions
by Lynne Sachs
12 min. 2024
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ended a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion in the United States. “Contractions” takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic. We listen to an obstetrician and a reproductive rights activist who movingly lay out these vital issues. We watch 14 women and their male allies who witness and perform with their backs to the camera. In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, they “speak” with the full force of their collective presence.
Featuring: Dr. Kimberly Looney, Anonymous Driver
Performers: SaBrenna Boggan, Chase Colling, Shana J. Crispin, Kimberly Hooper-Taylor, Coe Lapossy, A. Lloyd, Audrey May, Vanessa Mejia, Natalie Richmond, Krista Scott, Neal Trotter, J. Wright, Nubia Yasin
Director: Lynne Sachs
Co-producers: Emily Berisso, Laura Goodman, Lynne Sachs
Cinematographer
Sean Hanley
Editor
Anthony Svatek
Sound Design
Kevin T. Allen
Distribution: Kino Rebelde, Canyon Cinema, Film-Makers Cooperative, Light Cone
° Short Film Award, Mimesis Documentary Festival
° Best Women’s Film, Society for Photographic Education
° Cinema Eye Nomination, Documentary Short Award
° True/False Film Fest. United States °Cosmic Rays Film Festival. United States °Ann Arbor Film Festival ° Onion City Experimental Film Festival ° Prismatic Ground Film Festival ° Moviate Underground Film Festival ° Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University ° DocumentaMadrid International Film Festival. Spain °
VIENNA SHORTS International Shorts Film Festival. Austria ° PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art | “Sentient Disobedients”, Canada ° DC/DOX Film Festival.