2022, video with sound, animation, 4:45 min
I watch my children play. I search their movements, their words, for traces of my own failures. Will they become the measure by which I am judged?
Mantra is an experimental short film that reflects on the myth of motherhood. What does it mean to be a “good” mother? And who decides?
For centuries, the image of the mother has been shaped by religious ideals—most notably by the figure of Mary in Western culture. She embodies male fantasies of chastity, obedience, selflessness, and unconditional devotion—virtues still echoed in patriarchal expectations of women today.
But this image is beginning to crack. Women demand autonomy, complexity, and contradiction.
Mantra questions inherited ideals and exposes the tension between inner truth and external judgment. A meditation on motherhood—not as myth or moral role, but as lived, evolving identity.
