Motherboard
Victoria Mapplebeck / United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 91 min
Joys, sorrows and life's great tragicomedy in a video diary about motherhood and much more, recorded over nearly 20 years by award-winning British director Victoria Mapplebeck. A deeply personal and completely unsentimental film.
At the age of 38, Victoria Mapplebeck is single, pregnant and penniless. That was 20 years ago and she’s been filming her life ever since – and here’s the result. A unique, personal self-portrait of the great tragicomedy of life as a woman, mother and struggling artist in the London film industry. We literally see her son Jim grow up alongside her along the way, from sending a thumbs up from inside her pregnant belly to his first day at secondary school. But ‘Motherboard’ is also one of the least sentimental films about motherhood you can imagine. The BAFTA-winning Mapplebeck confronts us with life in its pure, raw form. A life where breast cancer, absent fathers and depression are part of the package, but where life still wins every time. And where everything will be fine as long as you don’t lose your sense of humour.