DISORIENT (Mothers at War)

Short filmAll
Written By May Braaten

DISORIENT: Mothers at War (2022)

Credits

written, directed, edited, and shot by- May Wanhua Braaten

featuring- Katie Yanqing Mastriano

is an autoethnographic essay film. Synthesizing personal history and personal archive, reenactment, and found footage with Daniel Drennen-ElAwar, whose work uses decolonial frameworks to reconsider intercountry adoption, DISORIENT examines love, identity, and exploitation in the aftermath of China’s one child policy. 

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