Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Cotten Candy

Daphna MERO 2011 Israel Fiction color 4min DigiBeta
Laundromat, a woman is sitting and looking at spinning laundry drum while she eats a cotton candy. Her hands become sticky and she becomes dirty, a violent encounter with a stranger resurfaces. Her action of eating in the present merges with the past memory; the Laundromat becomes both an interior and exterior space filled with cotton candy. The machines repetitive noise fills the Laundromat and dictates the movement inside it. The sweetness becomes too sweet, sticky and soiling. And she is spinning.

Director

Daphna MERO

Director and professional dancer; holds a BA of dance from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and a film graduate of Minshar for Art. Location and place provide the inspiration for her films which deal with the human experience via the novel medium of incorporating art and dance.

Daphna MERO

2011 Cotten Candy

2008 Family Trip

2007 Under Construction

Production Company / Minshar Art School

Email: festivals@minshar.org.il