Lesser Choices (2022)

09/30/2022 (MX) • Documentary • 8m

Overview

The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s, delivered in voiceover by the filmmaker’s mother. In its account of this intimate and disorienting memory, Lesser Choices summons a time of profound uncertainty—a moment from an era without rights—and offers a warning to the present.

Lesser Choices (2022)

09/30/2022 (MX) • 8m

Documentary

Overview

The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s, delivered in voiceover by the filmmaker’s mother. In its account of this intimate and disorienting memory, Lesser Choices summons a time of profound uncertainty—a moment from an era without rights—and offers a warning to the present.

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

mexico city, mexico

human rights

abortion

1960s

memories

short film

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