The Shade of Your Shadow addresses the issue of
incestuousness, an excessive and improper intimacy within
a relationship, which can be just as destructive as incest
itself. In the film I take Catherine’s point of view, to draw
a portrait of a character with a very singular psychology.
Faced with her son’s actions, which remind her of her own
past, Catherine gradually immerses herself in denial, finally
kidnapping her son to avoid confronting an escalating
situation. The film explores the need and desire not to see,
pushed to the extreme. By providing contextual elements
of Catherine’s family, I also want to communicate a sense
of the power of the trans-generational aspects at work in
the characters. To best portray the feeling of denial, my
directorial ambition is to completely inhabit Catherine’s point
of view, with long follow-ups, slow motion, and impressionist
touches, stylistically close to Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park.