Front Row - Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on The Fell, diversity in folk arts
Céline Sciamma’s last film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, won awards worldwide after its release in 2019. Now the French filmmaker is back with Petite Maman – a meditative film set in the French countryside in which an eight year old girl, while helping her parents clear her mother’s family home, meets a mysterious girl of the same age in the woods.
Less than a year since the UK emerged from lockdown, Sarah Moss has captured the experience of the pandemic in her new novel. The Fell follows a mother and son self-isolating and the fall-out when being confined to the house becomes too much to bear.
Many sea shanties, it turns out, have their roots in African-American work songs. Singers, dancers and academics Angeline Morrison and Fay Hield discuss diversity in the folk arts and how their new projects will widen this.
PRESENTER: Tom Sutcliffe
PRODUCER: Olivia Skinner
PHOTO: Céline Sciamma CREDIT: Claire Mathon
Published on Tuesday, 16th November 2021.
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