Director Natasja Fourie talks about her film, Motherhood, the first episode in our new series Mother Nature, exploring the real stories of real parents:

“Motherhood is an experimental film exploring the representation of the mother figure as both a sexual being and a lifeline for her child. In the film I wanted to challenge long-held stereotypes and sentimental views of motherhood by looking at the body and the identity of the mother. 

“I also wanted to counter our culture’s puritanical fear of the ripe and fertile female form in a truthful moving portrait of motherhood, by questioning and disrupting assumptions without being judgmental and inviting the audience to stare and to demystify the mother figure.”