Why My Mum Loves Russell Crowe

Synopsis

“Sex does strange things to people!” This sentence reverberates from her childhood. What did her mother mean? What fears did she pass on to Emma? The budding filmmaker sets up the camera in her mother’s apartment, invites mum’s friends, creates an open atmosphere. Coby opens up more and more, talks about a repressed topic. At the same time, she gets to show a wholly different side of herself, performing song and dance numbers in front of her daughter’s lens.

Director Biography

Emma van den Berg (1992) is a visual artist & documentary filmmaker, born and raised in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from the Audio-Visual Department (VAV) with a video installation and short documentary film 'Doei, stomme trut' (Bye, silly tart). Currently, she lives and works in London. Recently she finished her studies in Documentary Filmmaking at Goldsmiths, University of London.