Jon Sanders and Anna Mottram’s film explores sisterly bonds and the process of
mourning. Sisters and performance artists Phoebe and Dot (Josie Lawrence
and Tanya Myers) have returned to their family home on the Isle of Wight a
year after the death of their composer mother. As they prepare the house
for its sale, clearing decades of family clutter, they have started to work
on a site-specific performance piece about their complex relationship with
their mother and her serial infidelities; this incorporates her
compositions for pianola and songs using the poems of Mary Coleridge, one
of which A Clever Woman gives the film its title.
A Clever Woman
1h 28m
Director: Jon Sanders
Cast: Bob Goody, Anna Mottram, Josie Lawrence,
James Northcote
