Summary:

Based on a series of Reddit posts from 2017-2020, we journey through an anonymous woman’s experience of postpartum psychosis and a failed DIY herbal abortion as she reveals her story through hallucinations and flashbacks. A former anti-abortion activist who once spent her weekends praying outside of abortion clinics, her life takes a turn after the birth of her first child.

She suffers a psychotic break and believes her baby is a demon. After recovering, she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant again and accidentally poisons herself during a DIY herbal abortion. Ultimately, she must choose between motherhood and sanity.

Director Bio:

Yvette Granata is a media artist and filmmaker based in Detroit. Her work has been exhibited at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Harvard Carpenter Center for the Arts, Viz Laboratory for Visual Culture in Athens, The Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam, The Kunsthalle of Media and Light Art in Detroit, Papy Gyro Nights in Norway and Hong Kong, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and Squeaky Wheel Media Arts Center in Buffalo, among others.

Her film production design work has appeared on screens at Sundance, Tribeca, Rotterdam, Berlinale, Rome International Film Fest, SXSW, and CPH:PIX. She also produced the hybrid documentary City World (2012), which premiered internationally at CPH:DOX and won best documentary at Cinema on the Edge in LA. She holds a Ph.D. from SUNY Buffalo’s Media Arts Ph.D. Program and a Masters from the University of Amsterdam.

Yvette works across multiple forms and creates immersive installations, hybrid VR films, video art, interactive environments, and hypothetical technological systems.