Eat Your Catfish Documentary Film Screening

537 South Maple Street,French Lick IN 47432

29 April, 2022

Description

With dark humor and extraordinary intimacy, this film probes the breakdown of a family’s bonds and of a woman’s will to live. This film is structured as a first-person account of Kathryn’s (Noah's mother) final stage before death. It is, in its totality, her plea for the wider world to understand what she went through, why she persisted, and finally why she gave up. So, rather than turning and looking at Kathryn, or asking others to sit down and tell us about her, we aim to bring the viewer as close as possible to actually being Kathryn and experiencing what she experienced. Through Kathryn’s own narration, we enter the inner world of a severely disabled woman and mother facing her own mortality. We wanted to break from earlier documentaries on these themes by telling a true story, without contrived heroics, of the brutality of the daily challenges—both practical and emotional—of in-home care for a disabled and terminally ill person. We hope viewers’ assumptions and feelings will shift as the film progresses from pinning all the blame on any one family member to appreciating that each, in their way, is responsible for their collective pain and each, in turn, is to be forgiven for their shortcomings. Kathryn’s story should also have particular resonance at this unique global moment where we all have faced isolation and the fear of a lonely death. Director's Note by Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand & Senem Tüzen. www.eatyourcatfish.com The film is 74min. There will be a facilitated discuss after the film for those who would like to stay. Donations encouraged.