My mother, the sea | Mia madre, il mare
Aspasia Kazeli
Estonia | 2022 | 6’01 No Dialogues Italian Preview
The film explores and symbolically expresses the director’s grieving process for her mother’s loss, from her passing until today. This three year journey is captured allegorically in this film as a weaving of two parallel paths; the mother’s journey to the afterlife and the parallel grieving states of her child. From the last breath, to the mourning and the only temporal salvation from it. It is an observation of her transition, which her child follows with its personal emotional dissolve.
Script, direction, animation, editing: Aspasia Kazeli
Sound design: Bruno Quast
Production: Estonian Academy of Arts
Aspasia Kazeli
Aspasia Kazeli likes to express herself visually through movement, while exploring motion within stillness.
An undercover Greek olive dressed up as an Estonian cabbage, she is an MA Animation graduate from the Estonian Academy of Arts that bounces between animation and illustration, through different aesthetic expressions.