Experiencing Interruptions?

Roxane

Three siblings come together in a ritual game of make-believe in which they re-enact their mother’s life in an attempt to understand the impact she had on them. The only thing she left behind - audio tapes, each with the title of a chapter of her unrecorded memoir.

As per the rules of their game, the siblings pull straws to determine who becomes the mother and who voices the family members with whom she interacts via kitchen appliances: the husband is a toaster, the mother-in-law a blender, the children (the siblings themselves) two jugs and a scale. Prompted by the tapes they hand pick, the siblings fill in the blanks, exploring their mother’s childhood, marriage and relationship with them.

  • Nadia Cavelle
    Director
  • Oliver Dawe
    Director
  • Nadia Cavelle
    Writer
  • Ben Weaver-Hincks
    Producer
  • Nadia Cavelle
    Key Cast
    "Roxane & Older Sister"
  • Zachary Fall
    Key Cast
    "Brother"
  • Lorna Nickson Brown
    Key Cast
    "Young Sister"
  • Luke André Jackson
    Editor
  • Josh Spear
    Composer
  • Reuben Shaljean
    Sound Designer & Audio Mixer
  • Judith Raynault
    Graphic Designer
  • Vlad Barin
    Colourist
  • Felix Schmilinsky
    Cinematographer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 22, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Aesthetica Short Film Festival
    York
    United Kingdom
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Nadia Cavelle, Oliver Dawe

Originally from Switzerland and France, Nadia Cavelle is an award-winning playwright as well as a filmmaker and actor who trained at Drama Centre London. She recently graduated with Distinction from the MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University, and is currently working on her first novel. Her second stage play, SUBJECT MATER, received rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019, and won a Scotsman’s Fringe First Award for innovation and outstanding new writing. Her debut short, LASCIVIOUS GRACE, received nominations for the Best Screenwriter and Best Actor Awards at the BAFTA-qualifying Underwire Festival and was selected for the BFI Flare and the Oscar-qualifying BIFF 2018. Nadia is currently developing two full-length films, one of which is a commissioned feature entitled A RELATIVE WOMAN, nominated for the Mubi Wscripted Cannes Screenplay List 2022, cast and exec produced by Academy member Ilene Starger. She has another short in post production, AFTER THE WORD.

Oliver Dawe is a theatre director and writer based on the remote Arctic island of Ingøy in Northern Norway, as well as Oslo and London. He trained as a director at The Drama Centre London and is the founder and artistic director of the world's northern most artist residency centre, The Field Station. He is also associate director at Hackney Showroom and previously artistic director of RIVE Productions, associate director of PLAY Theatre Company and mentored by The Michael Grandage Company.

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