Setting Out Productions

“Autobiographical films, like all art, can never hope to wholly displace or heal the secrets and traumas they disclose. Yet we remain drawn to these meditative vehicles, perhaps for their purgative powers, perhaps for the mysteries of the heart which they momentarily expose.”  - Michael Renov

I just finished writing an essay about how [...]

‘I never thought that it would be easy,’ you might be thinking.  Apparently people do misjudge the difficulty of child-rearing or at least people refuse to admit to these difficulties.  Newsweek recently ran an article subtitled “Being a parent is easy and intuitive, correct? Well, no—it’s just customary to pretend that that’s the case.”  More [...]

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I’ve been debating about how to incorporate men into my parenting explorations.  Although I don’t see motherhood as necessarily tied to heterosexual coupling, men are an integral part of the baby-making process.  And just because women have the ability to bear children doesn’t mean that men [...]

There are a lot of interesting mating and birthing practices in the animal kingdom.  Surinam toad froglets emerge fully formed from their mother’s back.  After she lays eggs her male partner puts them on the skin of her back where they sink in, implant, grow and hatch.  Female seahorses deposit their eggs in their [...]

I was shocked when I recently found out that for some women breast feeding is extremely painful. Apparently being a “lactation consultant” is now a thriving business. [...]