STRETCH MARKS
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This highly revealing self documentation follows a pregnant, single woman, provocative performance artist into the club, the living room, the bedroom and even beyond. Director Zohar Wagner (''Zorki'') films herself and talks about how she got pregnant by one man, fell in love with another and celebrates her rising sexuality up until the day she gave birth. But when her baby is born, with the blessing came a curse: the luscious boobs and the man she loved both disappeared. An unusual show-and-tell about pregnancy and its aftermath.
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Credits:
Script: Tal Rabiner and Zohar Wagner
Cinematographer: Zohar Wagner
Editor: Tal Rabiner
Sound Designer: Alex Claude
Music: Zohar Wagner and the stinky ones
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Festivals:
* Nominee: Estonian People’s Award: Pärnu International Documentary Film Festival - Estonia 2010
* Visions du Réel International Film Festival, Nyon - Switzerland 2010
* RIDM Montréal International Documentary Film Festival - Canada 2009
* Delray Beach Film Festival, Florida - USA 2010
* Gender DocuFilm Festival, Rome - Italy 2010
* Sexy international Film Festival, Melbourne – Australia 2010
* Kos International Health Film Festival, Kos – Greece 2010
*Laboratorio Tascabile - Bergamo International film Festival – Italy 2011
*Astra Film Festival – Romania 2011
* Doc Aviv International Documentary Film Festival - Israel 2009
STRETCH MARKS was Nominee for the ESTONIAN PEOPLE'S AWARD. The documentary film by Zohar Wagner was aired on Estonian Public Television during the Pärnu International Documentary Film Festival (11th - 18th July 2010)
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Reviews:
Director Zohar Wagner likes filming herself, talking about her burgeoning sexuality, singing rock songs and pretty well doing whatever she wants. Pregnant and no father around? No problem. With her newly augmented breasts, she’ll be more attractive than ever. Worries about an expanding waistline making her less desirable? Never mind. She can always masturbate. But what about after the baby is born when her sex drive wanes and her breasts revert to normal size? An unusual show-and-tell about pregnancy and its aftermath… stretch marks and all.
Rencontres internationales du documentaire, Montréal
« Strech Marks, by Israeli Filmmaker Zohar Wagner, is the little candy for the end! The diary of a pregnant woman completely eccentric, very sexual at and not shy at all. For those who find pregnant women and new mothers too flat or blue flowers, enough to break the prejudices! »
Helen Faradji // Revue24images, Montréal
« The rumor claims that one cannot miss the screening of Stretch Marks by Zohar Wagner: a self-portrait of a very special pregnant woman who goes her own way. »
Guillaume Fournier // Voir, Montréal
« Believable without being compliant, this self-portrait of the director (also a singer in a post-punk band), that was shot during - and a little after - her pregnancy, is at the right distance from the beginning to the end. In a very tight cinema movement, as rigorous as generous, Zohar Wagner says and shows who she is - and how she sees the world. Intimate right to one's fingertips. »
Jérôme Provençal // Mouvement, Montréal