Coming to theatres today, Friday, October 18:
SERENDIPITY
Director:
Prune Nourry
World Premiere:
Berlin 2019
Select Festivals:
Tribeca, Doc Fortnight, Mill Valley
About:
A personal reflection of the filmmaker/artist’s work after a breast cancer diagnosis.
Prune Nourry is a multidisciplinary French artist, based in NYC, whose work in sculpture, performance, and photography has focused on gender, women’s rights, reproduction, and their intersection with science. Her feature film debut is part of a multiplatform project that included a Paris solo show and book, and is informed by a breast cancer diagnosis. Before beginning chemotherapy, she has her eggs harvested and frozen for potential future use. This eerily echoes projects she has completed in the past following other women going through the same procedure, and serves as the lead-in to a meditation on other past work, as well as her artistic response in the present, going hand-in-hand with activities related to her treatment. It’s a precarious balance between artistic survey and personal chronicle of a life-threatening disease, and, to Nourry’s credit, she manage this for the most part.
