UNDERNEATH THE BRIDGE (2024)

Experimental short film, 20 min



Director Emma Rosenzweig

Scriptwriter Emma Rosenzweig 

Producer Julie Friis Walenciak 

Director of Photography Stroud Rohde Pearce

Editor Emil Gundersen

Sound Designer Severin Wedel

Composer Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin

Production Designer Jane Hedegaard

Costume Designer Oliver Fussing

 


Cast Clara Dessau, Ellen Hillingsø, Siggy Sonne, Ayşe Dudu Tepe, Melanie Kitti, Dora Selma Rosenzweig, Oliver Fussing, Esben Weile


 


Produced by Paloma Productions



UNDERNEATH THE BRIDGE in the middle of the serene Ørstedsparken, a group of women has established a beauty clinic of pastel-colored wellness. An intimate, feminine community of caring touches, loving glances, and gentle self-optimization through needles and nail polish. Literally a space for transformation—a place one visits to become a different version of oneself after crossing the bridge.

Through the meeting of a young woman who wishes to change her face and her mother, whose ideals differ, Rosenzweig creates a generational divide between two different understandings of feminism and identity. While the young woman asserts her right to control her own body, the mother points to the problematic objectification of the female body.