- Explores subjectivity, trauma, family dynamics and the stories we tell ourselves.
- The Wolf Suit is a personal documentary about memory, truth, and power and the stories we tell ourselves about the past. Troubled by conflicting accounts of her parents' break-up and the happy childhood memories of when they all lived together in Walthamstow, director Sam Firth embarks on an emotional exploration of those recollections - and by extension the notion of truth - and details the results of tapping into them. Employing a wide range of narrative and exploratory devices - from video journal entries and interviews with her parents, to dramatic reconstructions using actors and her parents as co-directors - the film explores a painful and often surprising territory. This is a film about subjectivity, trauma, family dynamics and whose story we choose to believe.
- The Wolf Suit is a film about memory, truth, and power and the stories we tell ourselves about the past. It's a personal film about family, self and identity that explores how our different stories conflict, intersect and, at times, can unravel.
Filmmaker Sam Firth reconstructs scenes based on her parent's accounts of their dysfunctional marriage with her parents and her own memories of childhood to try to get to the bottom of their conflicting accounts. The Wolf Suit takes us on a personal journey exploring the nature of memory, and its relationship with storytelling using reconstruction as a tool for looking at conflicting family narratives afresh. The Wolf Suit is a personal documentary that uses the process of filmmaking, reconstruction and editing as a metaphor for how we remember and construct stories of our lives. The film is prompted by a contradiction between the directors' happy childhood memories and her parents' conflicting stories and takes us on an exploration through the past as Sam Firth's attempts to piece together a single narrative of what happened to her family that lead to the breakdown of her parents' relationship. Sam's journey starts with a set of stories that repeat and contradict each other and have become in her words "just stories" hollow of meaning or emotional power. Sam uses different devices to try and prompt different memories and ultimately turns to reconstructions, of her own memories and her parents stories, bringing her parents to the set of the film to take part. Ultimately Sam is forced to confront the ways in which we all hear and construct the stories we want to and the film itself becomes a vehicle for coming to terms with unwanted aspects of the past.
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