Your first period, but make it Greek myth body horror with mommy issues.
Delphyne (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance, taboos around menstrual blood are told through a fabric-themed metaphor, and the conflict between a mother-daughter relationship; to find a shared unity and language to beat the conflict which projects itself in the shame metaphor that they’ve unwound and removed from their life. The historical connotations of staining, feminine purity and the divide between private and public space as well as ownership of the body come into play. The coming of age theme is reflected in reference to her struggle with the self (alter-ego), struggle with the ‘other’ (male influence) and struggle with the home (her Mother).
Cinematography
Fabric-as-flesh visual language that's genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Forbes weaponizes textile work as feminine horror.
Production
Period piece costumes doubling as metaphorical cages.
Director
Vasilisa Forbes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references the Greek Delphyne, a snake-tailed dragoness who guarded the oracle—here reimagined as the monstrous feminine made literal through menstruation.
Forbes specifically used actual textile artists and period-accurate fabric techniques to create the 'womb' spaces, making the historical setting and bodily metaphor materially inseparable.
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