Three minutes. One life just beginning. No midwife, just a father and a camera.
My youngest daughter, Mei, a few days after I helped deliver her (the midwife arrived too late).
Cinematography
16mm film grain feels like memory itself.
Direction
Sherwin makes the personal universal.
Director
Guy Sherwin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Schooting Back' project where filmmakers documented their children from birth onward.
Sherwin deliberately avoided the 'money shot' of crowning; the film begins in aftermath, making it about presence, not spectacle.
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