As You Were (2024)

As You Were (2024) - new non-fiction moving image work

[50min, HD, single channel, stereo. Eng w/ closed captions. German subtitles available.]

Themes: Intimacy; Archives; Institutions; Women’s Healthcare; Professional identity.

As You Were screens today at Sea Change Film Festival, supported by Screen Scotland. Warm thanks to Jen Skinner and her team with a special shout out to Maura. Sorry not to be in beautiful Tiree but wishing all at the festival and Screen Argyll a wonderful, enriching weekend.

AS YOU WERE - Sound design by Tom Drew. Second camera by Minttu Maari Mäntynen. Colour grading by Sebastian Bürkner. Supported by Surgeons Hall Museums. Funded by Creative Scotland and ECA, University of Edinburgh.

Upcoming essay about the film by Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik, out in the new year.

As You Were, created by Scottish artist filmmaker Lyndsay Mann, was made in conversation with midwives and obstetricians from the UK’s National Health Service who have themselves given birth.
How do our private experiences inform our professional selves that through our institutions impact the lives of others? As You Were explores this question through experiences of pregnancy and birth to query the boundaries of professional, personal and institutional understanding. Historical maternity instruments filmed at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh intersect with scenes of a women’s coxed rowing team, and intimate documentation of the artist's domestic life. As You Were foregrounds women's voices and creates a space of listening about the role of institutions in our most personal experiences.

How do our private experiences inform our professional selves that through our institutions impact the lives of others?

As You Were has its own webpage here>