Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES, a lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century that is by turns haunting, incisive, and wry. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational, industrial, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films) THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES inventively untangles the co... (Full plot summary below)
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Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES, a lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century that is by turns haunting, incisive, and wry. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational, industrial, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films) THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES inventively untangles the complex, sometimes surprising genealogies of maternal education. From the first use of anesthetic ether in the 19th century to the postmodern 21st century hospital birthing suite, THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES charts a fascinating course through the cultural history of pain, the history of obstetric anesthesia, and the little-known international history of the natural childbirth and Lamaze movements. THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES is a meditation on the maternal body as a site of institutional control, ideological surveillance, medical knowledge, and nationalist state intervention.
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