Location: Norway/America; Language: English; Captions: English or Spanish

Muttererde calls for femme forms of ancestral history in the face of the often interrupted historical knowledge of the African diaspora in Europe and elsewhere. What are rituals, teachings and abilities passed on from our matriarchs? How do these inherited skills serve us or inhibit us today?

The conversations with five black femmes on the knowledge and non-knowledge of their mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers and as far back as the knowledge carries them create a rich and powerful archive. They explore themes of motherhood, migration, cultural differences, beauty standards, queerness, kinship, death and rebirth. Their stories, although from five different countries, intertwine to weave a tapestry of herstory through the African diaspora. Through their testimonies the viewer discovers that ritual, memory and oral history can challenge the status quo. In collaboration with filmmaker Astrid Gleichmann.

A film by Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor.

Featuring the stories of Camalo Gaskin (pronouns: she/her), Tobi Ayedadjou (pronouns: she/her), Niv Acosta (pronouns: he/him), Natalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro (pronouns: she/her) and Fannie Sosa (pronouns: they/them).

Supported by the Decentralized Cultural Work Tempelhof-Schöneberg, District Kunst und Kulturförderung Berlin and A Prima Vista Filmproduktion.

Audio Descriptions performed by Bill Larson.

British Sign Language Interpretation by Rachel Jones.

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