Swallowed 8 years old

What if the ideal life you've meticulously constructed isn’t enough?

Sam, newly a mother, shops at a supermarket with her baby and husband Carlson. She throws a neighborhood shishkabob party in her den. Her family shares a Sunday breakfast. But through her smiles and picturesque tasks, there's a suppression. Sam’s grown something she can no longer contain. As she purges this parasite, we move inside her body and experience this wildness as a feverish dance.The parasite ejects us back into the kitchen of another woman, alone eating breakfast as she looks at a happy couple pictured on the back of her cereal box. It’s Sam and Carlson. What's beneath a picture? A dream within a dream. Horror meets dance, SWALLOWED suggests a complex truth to motherhood and domesticity. (The Criterion Channel)

Credits

Swallowed Cast

Name Character
Lily Baldwin as Sam

Swallowed Crew

Name Department
Lily Baldwin as Director. Directing
Swallowed poster
Swallowed (8 years)

What if the ideal life you've meticulously constructed isn’t enough?

  • Release day: Thursday, October 20, 2016
  • Runtime: 17 minutes