Filmmaker Statement

I wrote the script for "The Day I Killed My Mother" in a single night and we shot this film within two days and edited the film within three days as part of a very small and speed-run-and-gun international workshop held in the town of Neringa in Lithuania. The cast consisted of local actors, the locations were residences of the workshop coordinators, camera equipments were scarce, lighting was limited, the crew unit consisted of six people and the second draft was the final draft. The lead actress, was the daughter of a caterer at the workshop residence. In such a short framework, intimacy stood as the only element available to elevate my film. And intimacy within a constricted continuity in time and space is what I have tried to achieve in this film. It is a semi-autobiographical film that narrates a single day in the intimate behaviours of a child's psychology in reasoning and rituals at the face of trauma. I lost my own mother to suicide at the age of 7.