In this personal essay documentary, the director reflects on getting diagnosed with endometriosis through observing the invasive Japanese Knotweed. While the plant is treated with urgency, the disease is met with inaction, prompting us to question the very things we consider “natural” in the first place.
There’s Not Much We Can Do
- Erica Monde
- United Kingdom
- 2022
- 19 mins
- Fri Jan 26
- 10:00 AM
- Market Hall
- English
- Captioned in English
Virtual & Hybrid Passholder Pre-order is now open for this film in the Virtual Theatre. Individual Virtual Theatre ticket sales open January 17th.
About the Filmmaker
- Filmmaker: Erica Monde
- Producer: Clara Harris
Erica Monde is a Scotland-based director and anthropologist from California. Her short documentary There’s Not Much We Can Do, commissioned by the ScottishDocumentary Institute and Screen Scotland as part of Bridging the Gap,premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2022. She is co-founder ofIMPRINT Documentary Collective, an alumna of the Locarno Industry Academy, and has produced short documentaries that have screened at Thessaloniki, Sarajevo and BFI Flare. She is currently completing her next short film, i was born in the month of the moon (what my body told me), and developing her first feature length documentary.