Animated documentary (15 mins.)
Watch the teaser here
Paint on glass/cutout animation in production with funding from the Bundesamt fuer Kultur (BAK), Zürcher Filmstiftung, der Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft, Swiss National Television (SRF), and Kanton St. Gallen Kulturförderung.
As a child fleeing the violence of her adoptive father, Darcy finds comfort in the natural world. Falling asleep within the safety of the Californian redwoods, she dreams of roots. But what if the missing mother she longs for does not want to be found? The yearning to belong takes Darcy across the Americas as an adult–to El Salvador where she searches for children who were forcibly disappeared during the war–and toward an unexpected reckoning in the Sonoran Desert. This intimate memory portrait combines expressively painted scenes with animated archival documents and photographs to reveal a daughter’s longing for the mother she lost through closed adoption.
