What We All Lack

Written and directed by María Serralvo, What We All Lack is inspired by the story of surrealist photographers Man Ray and Lee Miller and invites us to reflect on our own relationships and the power dynamics behind them.

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A co-production of the University of California Berkeley and Digital Films.

GENRE

Drama, experimental

CATEGORY

Fiction

FORMAT

9’, Digital – 2022

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“I would rather take a photograph than be one.”
- Lee Miller

What We All Lack presents a reflection on the male gaze and the female body. While Man, an important artist, admires Lee’s beauty, she feels trapped in her role as muse and realizes she needs to escape. The film uses excerpts from the love letters Man Ray wrote to Lee Miller during their relationship in the 1930s in Paris. His restless and demanding speech is combined in this film with recreations of some of Ray’s portraits of Miller. She, posing in front of the camera for him and, consequently, for us, will turn her nudity, at first vulnerable, into her strength. From a dreamlike, subtle and ambivalent space, What We All Lack invites us to question the mechanisms of the gaze on the female body and to think about the power dynamics hidden behind our own relationships.

CREDITS

CREDITS

Director and Screenwriter

Maria Serralvo

Executive producer

Alexis Borràs Izquierdo

Cast

Marcie Rich
Marcus Stock

Voiceover

John Tangney

Cinematography

Alfredo Torres

Assistant Camera

Mia Sweeney

Original Music

Blau Cubarsi

Sound

Carlota Bravo
Luiz Chamon

Sound design

León Bertone

Production Assistants

Elena Presilla
Eugeniu Cuznetov

With the special collaboration of

Nicolás Pereda

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