WFTV in Bristol: Motherboard: Screening and Q&A with Director Victoria Mapplebeck

WFTV members are invited to this special screening of Motherboard, hosted with Bristol Doc Club and Watershed.

BAFTA-winning shorts director Victoria Mapplebeck’s (Missed Call) extraordinary feature doc is a video diary filmed over 20 years that charts the experience of raising her son Jim alone.

At first filmed on an old DVCAM, then on smartphones – a mode of filmmaking Mapplebeck is passionate about for its intimacy and accessibility – Motherboard was shot on five generations of smartphones, from the iPhone 6 to the iPhone 15. Pieced together from hundreds of hours of footage, it captures each twist and turn in Jim’s life, from the thumbs-up he gave Mapplebeck during her first pregnancy scan to his first day at college, alongside her own struggles and successes (single motherhood, breast cancer and treatment, anxiety and the vagaries of her career as an artist and filmmaker).

The result is an impressive testament…