Sam, newly a mother, shops at a supermarket with her baby and husband Carlson. She throws a neighborhood shishkabob party in her den. Her family shares a Sunday breakfast. But through her smiles and picturesque tasks, there's a suppression. Sam’s grown something she can no longer contain. As she purges this parasite, we move inside her body and experience this wildness as a feverish dance.The parasite ejects us back into the kitchen of another woman, alone eating breakfast as she looks at a happy couple pictured on the back of her cereal box. It’s Sam and Carlson. What's beneath a picture? A dream within a dream. Horror meets dance, SWALLOWED suggests a complex truth to motherhood and domesticity. (The Criterion Channel)
Released: Mar 13, 2016
Runtime: 17 minutes
Stars: Lily Baldwin, Michael Dempsey, Samuel John Damon, Gabby Weintraub, Katharine Padulo, Jeff Bowers
Crew: Andrew Houchens (Producer), Dagmar Weaver-Madsen (Director of Photography), Jonathan Thai (Wardrobe Supervisor), Jay Nierenberg (Sound Designer), Abby Harri (Production Manager), Kira Stuger (Hairstylist)