What We All Lack
Documentary, fiction, 9′, color, digital, 2022.

 

While Man, an important artist, admires Lee’s beauty, she feels trapped in her role as muse and realizes she needs to escape. The film uses excerpts from the love letters Man Ray wrote to Lee Miller during their relationship in the 1930s in Paris. His restless and demanding speech is combined in this film with recreations of some of Ray’s portraits of Miller. She, posing in front of the camera for him and, consequently, for us, will turn her nudity, at first vulnerable, into her strength.

 

This film was made within the academic framework of the Film and Media Studies program at the University of California, Berkeley, under the mentorship of Nicolás Pereda.

 

Produced by University of California Berkeley and Digital Films.

Selections

Best Experimental Film at Paris Film Art Festival 2023

PIFF Los Angeles 2022 (Official Selection)

BARCIFF 2022 (Official Selection)

Preselected at Visions du Réel 2023

Credits

Director and screenwriter: Maria Serralvo

Executive producer: Alexis Borràs

Director of Photography: Alfredo Torres

Assistant camera: Mia Sweeney

Sound: Carlota Bravo, Luiz Chamon

Sound design: León Bertone

Original music: Blau Cubarsi

Production assistants: Elena Presilla, Eugeniu Cuznetov

Cast: Marcie Rich, Marcus Stock

Voice over: John Tangney