Being and being empty
2018. Video, 100s of photographs
How to be a mother … who is this being that I am? Wanting to be half-full with the joy of play, a job well done, and the softness of a bed to sink into at the end. Feeling half-empty with a busy brain that won’t shut down and twitches into awakening too early. Feeling overwhelmed by the chores and feeling rubbish as a result because surely that’s really not important. Tossing and turning and struggling to make a zingy start to each new day.
How to be a mother … who is this being that I am? Wanting to be half-full with the joy of play, a job well done, and the softness of a bed to sink into at the end. Feeling half-empty with a busy brain that won’t shut down and twitches into awakening too early. Feeling overwhelmed by the chores and feeling rubbish as a result because surely that’s really not important. Tossing and turning and struggling to make a zingy start to each new day.
- Reviewed by Moving Poems - "It’s amazing how hard a skilled poetry filmmaker like Glennie can make 37 seconds work. The effect of an enervated, over-active brain is not merely communicated but, one feels, directly represented. Brava!"
- Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival 2018, finalist - Best Production One Minute or Under
- Official selection at IndieCork Festival - 6th Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, Cork, Ireland
- Shown by the National Poetry Library, South Bank Centre, London in the Worlds First Instagram Poetry Competition
- Screened by Video Art Film Club #1, Leyden Gallery, London.
- Official selection at Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Seattle - Northwest Film Forum, 2019
- Screened by Newlyn International Film Festival 2019
