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A Clever Woman  2022
Director:  Jon Sanders
Producer:
  Anna Mottram and Jon Sanders
Editor:
  Jamie Benyon
Music:
  Douglas Finch
Screenplay:
  Jon Sanders
Director of Photography:
  David Scott
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Cast:
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spacer1 Bob Goody
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Synopsis:
Beguiling and free-spirited, Jon Sanders and Anna Mottram’s uplifting and emotionally intense film explores sisterly bonds and the process of mourning. Sisters and performance artists Phoebe and Dot (Josie Lawrence and Tanya Myers) have returned to their family home on the Isle of Wight a year after the death of their composer mother. As they prepare the house for its sale, clearing decades of family clutter, they have started to work on a site-specific performance piece about their complex relationship with their mother and her serial infidelities; this incorporates her compositions for pianola and songs using the poems of Victorian, feminist poet Mary Coleridge, one of which A Clever Woman gives the film its title.

Over one day, they – plus house-sitting musician Tom (James Northcote) and the sisters’ producer/curator Monica (Anna Mottram) – are forced to engage with the ghosts of the past and the void left behind.

At once a celebration and a lament, Sanders and Mottram’s improvised production style lends itself perfectly to a story that is playful, raw and always surprising.

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