Swallowed 2016

What if the ideal life you've meticulously constructed isn’t enough?

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Drama Horror

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)

Release Date 2016-03-13
Runtime 17m
Directors Lily Baldwin, Dagmar Weaver-Madsen, Niki Janowski
Producers Andrew Houchens, Jane Schoenbrun
Writer