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Jerusha West is a writer and film director based in the UK. Her work paves way for dialogue around issues of the female experience through the mediums of memory and nostalgia. Solidago is a short film that explores a fictionalised response to the ‘Baby Scoop Era’, an increased surge in extra-marital births and newborn adoption rates. Solidago aims to advocate for women who have been silenced with a need to reopen a dialogue. Shot in colour on analogue 16mm film using ARRI and Bolex cameras, the film accompanied with slow paced, delicate and hazy shots presents the Solidago community. They are found in a place for those in search of unity and refuge who have otherwise been silenced.
Jerusha West : “I think the work people make can be very affected by more fundamental experiences one has – the landscape you grew up in, the texture of the curtains in your bedroom growing up, what you saw, watched, read or heard as a child. Your wounds; your parents’ wounds; their traumas and so on. I think all these things really do seep into your work even if it takes the form of resistance.”
Official film instagram: @solidago.film
Starring: @rose_boyle / @rosevkeegan / @priyablackburn / Ziggy Heath / Bill Hurst /
@poppykeating / @eve_stotesbury / @phoebeaverdieck / @shaynashoe / @leila_al_yousuf / @bytheclickingofmythumbs / @alicemacrae / Bryony Farmer / Janice Holland / Lara Boyle / Remy Roberts / Rosamond Sutton / Grace Stotesbury
Director and Writer: @jerushawest
Co-creator and co-writer: @gehazswa
Producers: @za_paglia @tee_dub
Associate Producers: @tateturnbull and Britt Soderberg
DOP: @morgan_k._spencer
Editor: @catriona_d
Music: @sampo_sound
Costume Design: @sophiedaniel
Production Design: @syd.harmony
HMU: @_zoedennis
Sound Recordist: @spokengoat
1st AD: @carlottabeckpeccozfilm
1st AC: @lawrencebeckwith @felixpickles
2nd AC’s: Saskia Dedman, Anastasia Romanchuka
Steadicam: @steadi.jell
Camera Assistant: @whitneyconti
Dance Choreographer: @mister_temi
Runner: @eleanoremp
Production Assistant: @efwoof
Production Design Assistants: @rosamond.emily.sutton @poppykeating
Costume Design Assistants: @___scb, @thomasechin, @_eells_ , @jodieruffle
Colourist: @finlayreid_colour
Re-Recording Mixer/ Supervising Sound Editor: @conorxkelly
Sound Effects Editors: @xenajada & Jessica Watkins
Re-Recording Mixer: Candela Palencia
Dialogue Editor: @jammododger356
Artworks: @aimeeparrott @sarahlbatey @jerushawest
Stills Photographer: @laura.aglr
Graphic Designer: @arrwsmth
Trailer Editor: @callunacallunacalluna
Serviced by @kodak_shootfilm @goldcrest_post
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