Storytelling

Look & Feel

Unstaged, unpolished, and mesmerizing in its realness. Let’s call it lyrical realism—a stunning visual style along the lines Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay that embraces real women, real skin, real bodies, and real environments in a way that conveys the beauty and poignancy of an ordinary moment, large or small.

The peace and plentitude of pregnancy portrayed through a woman absentmindedly plucking her nipple hair while touching her belly, the gentle morning sun spilling in through the bathroom window. Childbirth captured in a raw but poetical way that speaks to the magic of the experience rather than reveling in the labor and pain. A gorgeous overhead shot that finds our hero in a tub, quietly pushing with all her might, her midwife and her wife on either side of her. It’s reminiscent of a Renaissance painting, or maybe something like a Vermeer but more loosely composed. There’s a soulfulness to it—a holiness even—but it’s completely of this world. The bedroom setting, the sweat, the struggle. The beauty.

Imagery that tells a full story in the details and texture. Like the picture in your deck of a woman holding her baby, her body still looking several months pregnant. No one prepares you for this. The mesh underwear and the giant pad that are immediately recognizable to anyone who’s given birth in a hospital. Details that are so real and true that viewers can’t help but forge an emotional connection.