A Want in Her

Dir. Myrid Carten. 2024, 81 min. Ireland. DCP. In English and Irish with English subtitles. When her troubled mother goes missing, Irish filmmaker Myrid Carten returns home to find her—at the risk of losing herself. Drawing upon previously captured footage, new interventions, and extraordinarily evocative visual experiments within their living spaces, Carten reinvents the “home movie” as an aching, active processing, enacting patience and impatience, love and anger. Carten’s approaches all come across as methods of profound questioning, resisting definition and conclusion despite raw intimacy and her mother’s bouts with alcoholism and depression. In resisting cliché and avoiding the familiar, the film alights upon the uncanny, unable to shield us from the irreconcilability of a love that’s so painful, fundamental, and resolute. New York premiere 

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About the filmmaker:

Myrid Carten is an Irish filmmaker who makes works for cinemas and galleries. She trained in Artists’ Film at Goldsmiths University London and Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, UAL. Her work interrogates both the struggle for intimacy and the ways we are compromised by our pasts. She received the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award 2018-19. Her films have screened internationally and been supported by the BFI, Doc Society, Screen Ireland, NI Screen, New Dawn Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund. A Want in Her is her debut feature.