Making a Mother
Theos Think Tank
The film explores how our obsession with productivity is breaking us away from the natural waking and resting rhythms embedded in the natural world, and making it increasingly artificial. What do we lose when we pursue limitless productivity?
Directed and Designed by Emily Downe
Written by Emily Downe, Chine McDonald and Lizzie Harvey
Lead Animation by Martha Halliday
Additional Animation by Emily Downe
Music & Sound by Jan Willem de With (vocals by Lizzie Harvey and violins by Sofia Yatsyuk)
Voiced by Clover Stroud, Beverly Shepherd and Emily Downe
Produced by Theos Think Tank with thanks to Lucy Jones, The Ideas Workshop, Open Society Foundations