The Terrible Mother (1972)

In the kitchen of a Vermont farmhouse, four people come to sit around a table. The silence of solstice holds them together. Before a ritualized meal they each tell a story. Their stories are ominous, yet, as in the first OOBIELAND film (INTRODUCTION TO OOBIELAND), they are incomplete. Earlier, the titular mother has passed on her powers to a young woman. At the close of the film, this young woman enters the farmhouse and, with final simplicity, restores the old order.

Released June 22, 1972 25 min None+

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Short

Keywords: tmdb.short-film, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.kitchen, imdb.vermont, imdb.farmhouse, imdb.sitting-around-a-table, imdb.silence + 10 more, imdb.ritual, imdb.meal, imdb.ominous, imdb.mother, imdb.symbolism, imdb.allegory, imdb.single-location, imdb.solace, imdb.experimental-short, imdb.storytelling