We're delighted to welcome director Victoria Mapplebeck and her son Jim Mapplebeck for a live Q&A following this preview screening hosted by Reclaim the Frame.
Victoria Mapplebeck’s documentary Motherboard has been 20 years in the making and charts the joy, pain and comedy of her raising her son Jim alone.
At the age of 38, Victoria found herself single, pregnant and broke. Unable to combine motherhood with freelance directing, she was forced to abandon her career in TV, instead turning the camera on herself and Jim. She recorded hundreds of hours of footage, capturing each twist and turn in Jim’s life, from the thumbs- up he gave during her first scan, Victoria’s breast cancer diagnosis, his first day at college and two generations of absent fathers.
Motherboard is a complex, personal, funny and unsentimental portrait of a mother-son relationship from birth to adulthood.
★★★★
“Tender, intimate, funny and entirely absorbing….marvellous humanity and warmth”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“A candid, unsentimental, perceptive and, at times, profoundly moving portrait of the highs and lows of motherhood.”
Wendy Ide, Screen International
