There has been a lot of buzz about her new film, FUTURE WEATHER, playing next week at the Tribeca Film Festival, in May at the Santa Cruz Festival, and in June at the Nantucket Film Festival. FUTURE WEATHER is her debut film, but not her first attempt at capturing this story.
Two years ago, Deller made a three-minute short, SAVE OUR FUTURE. This film is the story of a thirteen-year-old girl, Lauduree, who expounds on the question, "What does our future mean to you?" She intertwines issues of natural environments and domestic stability, citing facts about population control. "The world doesn't have room for all your crap,” she says, while tossing out her mother's clutter from the bathroom. Composed in the style of PSA, the movie is the girl's opportunity to reach out to her mother, sharing her concerns about the future on a scale as large and grandiose as the sustainability of the world and as small and intimate as their mother-daughter relationship.
The piece was done as a companion to what eventually would become a longer story. Lauduree returns in FUTURE WEATHER, as obsessed about ecological disaster as ever and still struggling at home. Her mother has now run off and Lauduree is forced to take her life to her grandmother's house. She returns to the question, "What does our future mean to you?" Maybe this time she will get an answer. To check out the trailer, click here.
The FUTURE WEATHER project is not over. To support the film's distribution feel free to visit Deller's kickstarter page here.
To check out the short SAVE OUR FUTURE embedded here:
Save the Future from Jenny Deller on Vimeo.
(Post written by Dana Rachel Eckstein)
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