A new short film, “Memoir of a Veering Storm,” is based on the real-life experience of the filmmaker’s friend, who accompanied his girlfriend to an abortion without her parents’ knowledge. Watch here.
“The past few years we hear, in many countries, voices that come straight from the medieval past, saying what a female body should or shouldn’t do,” Sofia Georgovassili said.
A deer runs by, passing in and out of view a few times before everything becomes a blur. The image takes a moment to understand: the deer is face to face with us, so close to the camera lens it’s out of focus. Small, red-brown roe deer have the ability to postpone pregnancies until spring. Something about that captured the interest of the director, producer, and writer Sofia Georgovassili, who sees in it a juxtaposition to a part of human nature.
The film follows fifteen-year-old Anna on what looks to be a normal morning in a leafy city, somewhere in Greece. Her mother drops her off at school. She walks into the building, through a corridor and across an empty basketball court—then jumps the fence, escaping the halls of adolescence. She continues on, determined. Accompanied by her boyfriend and a friend, she heads for an abortion clinic.
The production of the fourteen-minute film took three years. Early in the process, the script was rejected from public funding, and Georgovassili struggled to find locations open to filming the story. “It didn’t cross my mind that doing a film [about] an abortion in 2020 would be the reason,” Georgovassili said. “I understood it a bit later. . . . The answer was no, after they would hear what the film was about.
Still, during those few days, a storm threatened production. Although the weather dissipated, it was written into the script, lending the film its title. The unplanned cyclone matched the atmosphere of the story, in which the social views around abortion and women’s bodies hover over a girl’s transition into adulthood. It reminds us that some storms pass unseen.
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