Nine minutes that will rewire how you hear survivors' voices.
Women’s voices rise to deliver testimonies of victims of sexual violence. By reconstructing a story with these fragments of experience, a societal portrait is painted throughout the documentary. Like a mosaic, the pieces stick together to build a unique story that could belong to any human.
Editing
Mosaic structure builds devastating cumulative power.
Direction
Béland lets silence scream louder than words.
Director
Marie-lou Béland
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The mosaic technique mirrors how survivors often piece together traumatic memories non-linearly, rejecting traditional documentary's demand for coherent narrative.
Released amid #MeToo's documentary boom, Béland's refusal to identify speakers by face or name pushes back against media's consumption of survivor trauma as spectacle.
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