Lucy Beech : Me and Mine Me and Mine

16 Jul-27 Sep 2015

Overview

In the words of Lucy Beech’s new film Me and Mine, empathy – the compassionate attempt to see the world through another’s eyes – is also ‘a kind of penetration, a travelling’. Loosely based on real events, Beech constructs an interpersonal drama that explores how so-called feminine ‘vir tues’ such as empathy and relationality have been used to rebrand historically male dominated professions. Concerned with the ways in which women construct and sustain communities, the film follows a female under taker as she negotiates her way through the changing landscape of the funeral business, as well as her experience as a woman among women. Dying is not the end of life, but a catalyst for its ceaseless reorganization or renewal.