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Dormancy

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Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual sterilization of "idiots, imbeciles, feeble minded or insane persons likely to procreate." Dormancy follows a young woman and her new husband who work the land and earn a small income herding sheep and working with lumber. The couple is lured into a rural clinic where they subjected to the sadistic goals of the doctors and eugenics field workers. For this modest family, life will never be quite the same...

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Status
Released
Budget
$7
Box office
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Language
EN
  • prohibition era
  • vermont
  • eugenics
  • short film

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereMiddlebury New Filmmakers Festival24 Aug 2018

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