Mother Nature: Between Man & Child

Natasja Fourie • South Africa • 2016 • 2 min

Story

”For most men, the most beautiful thing they will ever see is the body of a naked woman. For most women, it is the face of a first-born child.”

Why watch?

• Over six million views on YouTube, in the top five most popular on the Nowness channel.

”In the film I wanted to challenge long-held stereotypes and sentimental views of motherhood by looking at the body and the identity of the mother. I also wanted to counter our culture’s puritanical fear of the ripe and fertile female form in a truthful moving portrait of motherhood, by questioning and disrupting assumptions without being judgmental and inviting the audience to stare and to demystify the mother figure.”
Natassja Fourie on Nowness