Mother Mother Me
 

Mother Mother Me is an intergenerational family portrait featuring three women in transition.

After years of hesitation, Carmen finally moves out of her family home. With her best friend, she reflects on the simpler times of her life as a small town practical nurse. Her daughter, Louise, retires from her demanding career as a registered nurse. She begins a quest to find her ancestors in the genealogical archive, trying to answer her family’s long unspoken questions. Victoria gets lost in a years-long research project about the history of nursing and the transgressive power of female-friendship, struggling to place herself in her matriarchal line and to finish graduate school. 

The film follows the educational and career journeys of its subjects to trace the ways that societal constraints have shaped their paths in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Through intimate conversations with each other and their female friends captured over the course of 13 years, the film illuminates the profound effect of female bonds on women’s cognitive development and asks: How do we come to know what we know? How do we develop our voice? And how do we become ourselves? 

post-Production

CREW
writer/director/producer MEGHAN IRIS ARMSTRONG
cinematography KATHLEEN HEPBURN & MEGHAN IRIS ARMSTRONG
editors MEGHAN IRIS ARMSTRONG & ERICA GENEREUX SMITH
sound ERIN RAMLO

SUPPORTERS
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)