(Lesser Choices)

Content: The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s, delivered in voiceover by the filmmaker’s mother. In its account of this intimate and disorienting memory, Lesser Choices summons a time of profound uncertainty—a moment from an era without rights—and offers a warning to the present.

Countries:

Mexico,

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

8 minutes

Year:

2022

Directors:

Courtney Stephens

Crews:

Director

Sound