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Front Row: Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on The Fell, diversity in folk arts

16/11/2021

Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on The Fell, diversity in folk arts

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on The Fell, diversity in folk arts

Writer and director Céline Sciamma on her new film Petite Maman.

Writer and director Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on her novel The Fell, diversity in folk arts.

Céline Sciamma’s last film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, won awards worldwide after its release in 2019.  Now the French filmmaker is back with Petite Maman – a meditative film set in the French countryside in which an eight year old girl, while helping her parents clear her mother’s family home, meets a mysterious girl of the same age in the woods.  

Less than a year since the UK emerged from lockdown, Sarah Moss has captured the experience of the pandemic in her new novel.  The Fell follows a mother and son self-isolating and the fall-out when being confined to the house becomes too much to bear.  

Many sea shanties, it turns out, have their roots in African-American work songs. Singers, dancers and academics Angeline Morrison and Fay Hield discuss diversity in the folk arts and how their new projects will widen this.   

PRESENTER: Tom Sutcliffe
PRODUCER: Olivia Skinner

PHOTO: Céline Sciamma CREDIT: Claire Mathon

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