"In a recording studio, five mothers read the testimonies of other anonymous mothers and confide in each other, exposing their regrets about motherhood.
On a fantasized island, three of them are locked up in an open-air prison. They are watched and forced to do hard labor.

In the recording studio, these mothers make the decision to speak out, to read the testimonies of other women, to speak for others and to bear witness in person. They have the courage to speak out, to record it and to leave a trace. It's no longer a matter of individual, individualistic speech; it's the circulation of speech.

At the same time as words are set free in the studio, this fantasy world opens onto an island, a mental prison, a metaphor for the injunctions in which they feel trapped. In this open-air mental prison, they are monitored and forced to perform hard labor - washing cloths in a salty sea, drying them, folding them before they are taken away, like an alienating loop.

Mater Frioul, directed by Fatima Bianchi, and co-written with Séverine Mathieu, is an auteur film that oscillates between documentary and fiction, highlighting the unspoken issues of motherhood. It attempts to put social injunctions into images, while questioning a seemingly established model of motherhood.

This one-week residency follows on from a previous one, where sound and music creation work was carried out in collaboration with composer Alesssandro Bosetti and double bass player Charlotte Testu. This time, we're actually shooting part of the film. Over the next few days, we'll be concentrating on the testimonies of the mothers - those present in the studio, and all the others, anonymous, whose stories will be read and recorded.