In the midst of a tragedy, David is faced with a burden he can’t quite grasp.

Director’s Vision for ‘Mother of Mine’

The birth of the idea that became the screenplay for the film was born out of my own personal experience of suddenly losing my mother in the fall of 2021, this obviously had a huge impact on myself and my family, particularly my dad, I wanted to explore the feelings of onset grief, the immediate after-effects of losing someone, an element I felt less explored in art and cinema than grief over a substantial period of time.

The project began as pages and pages of handwritten notes and observations of myself and my father’s feelings, actions, and logistical factors that had to be done, such as relaying the information.

I wanted to explore how after such an event even your own home can become alien, a sort of ghost house, imprints forever left by a person that no longer ceases to exist in the physical world.

There’s also an element of the film that explores denial, refusal to accept certain events and sometimes that makes you run from them, I wanted to explore the moral complexity of this as I experienced something similar myself.

Collaboration with Robert came not only from his acting experience, but his beautiful writing and novel work about grief and his own mother’s passing when he was young, that was the spark that connected us over the project and made him want to explore a different kind of project outside of his iconic comedy work.