films | Cautionary Tales
in production
Roz Mortimer
A humorous but disturbing look at the way our society perceives childhood, loosely based on real events which are re-presented as a seasonal calendar of the terrible fates that befall children nowadays... abuse, suicide, kidnapping...
The film applies a range of digital interventions to large-format photographs of child performers in fantastic locations.
running time 6 minutes
Roz trained as a textile designer at Middlesex Polytechnic in the early eighties but has been making films since 1995. Her current production Gender Trouble, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is a documentary about intersex people in Britain. Previous films have explored the relationships girls have with their dogs (Dog of my Dreams) and a woman's fascination with worms. Roz lives in London.