BLUE BUTTERCREAM
(Releasing 2024)
What does it mean to live inside a body which no longer feels yours?
During a session with her counsellor, a young woman with a chronic pain condition relives memories from her past and observes how her life has transformed because of her disease.
Blue Buttercream begins with our protagonist Ava at her therapy session, throughout the session questions are asked which trigger memories of the last few months. We see her fall in love, we meet her friends and we see Ava's chronic pain relapse begin. As her physical mobility breaks down, her internal reality becomes distorted. Memories become more distressing. Stymied of an ability to understand her body and to translate her experience to others, her capacity to function becomes increasingly difficult and her tolerance for intimacy breaks. As her counsellor asks Ava: what does she want, how could she achieve it? The film asks the audience to consider the limits of our identity in bodily terms, are the range of our experiences bound by our physical selves?
Starring Martha Crow and Serena Bunn
Produced by Masha Thorpe and co-produced by Martha Crow. In association with Maypole Productions
Directed by Santiago Giraldo Arboleda
