Young Father

February 2019

Original score and sound design for Director/Photographer Lucile Brizard

In this art film from Lucile Brizard, eight fathers meditate on the layered complexities that come with having a son: navigating the similarities and the differences, the co-existing feelings of attachment and distance, the pressure to be brave, and the desire to appear tough. The men also reflect on their relationships with their own fathers, lamenting the moments of disconnect, missed conversations, things left unsaid and emotions unexpressed. One narrator reluctantly admits, ‘It kills me to say it, but I’m uncomfortable with him. There’. This elegant film is both touching and sad in its exposure of the inherent vulnerability and fragility of fatherhood, the pressures of masculinity and the ways our familial relationships bring us joy, but can also cause us pain.