Making a Mother
Theos Think Tank
A film exploring matrescence, the often unseen and deeply personal metamorphosis of becoming a mother.
This film reimagines ancient wisdom for contemporary motherhood, offering language, beauty, and recognition to an experience many feel, but few can name.
A new mother is in a process of radical change – morphing, transforming, transcending. But does anybody see her?
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
