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.