MU/T/T/ER
Film
In English, Swahili, German, Kitharaka (with English subtitles)
Mother tongue – it takes a long time for our dreams to change language. Shot in lockdown, MU/T/T/ER is an introspective meditation on the twisting and breaking of language, drawing on the work of Audre Lorde, M. NourbeSe Philip and May Ayim. In doing so, Esther Kondo Heller approaches the process of filmmaking like a poet, focusing on overlays and unfoldings to articulate memory, resonance and language. More