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Daniella DeVinter
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Daniella DeVinter is an Anglo-Danish filmmaker, writer, and academic with an unhealthy interest in stories of sickness and obsession. Born in Whitechapel, East London, she was the first in her family to go to university, studying German literature at Oxford before defecting to Cambridge to write her PhD—an offbeat biography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. An award-winning writer and director, Daniella is best known for Unwell Woman (2024), a gothic horror about hysteria and its haunted legacy, and her DIY one-woman-show shorts—Perfectly Undone (2021), Writer’s Block (2022), and Sick of It (TBC). She has also directed independent music videos (Bad Actors, Ode to Apocalypse; 2023) and made docum…
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10.0A night at the library turns into a nightmare when a student discovers a haunted painting, unleashing the dark secrets of her long-dead mother... Blending live action with stop-motion shadow puppetry, this short gothic horror resurrects the monstrous legacy of hysteria, and the medical myths that have made monsters of unmaternal mothers.
Unwell Woman
2024
10.0A night at the library turns into a nightmare when a student discovers a haunted painting, unleashing the dark secrets of her long-dead mother... Blending live action with stop-motion shadow puppetry, this short gothic horror resurrects the monstrous legacy of hysteria, and the medical myths that have made monsters of unmaternal mothers.
Unwell Woman
2024
10.0A night at the library turns into a nightmare when a student discovers a haunted painting, unleashing the dark secrets of her long-dead mother... Blending live action with stop-motion shadow puppetry, this short gothic horror resurrects the monstrous legacy of hysteria, and the medical myths that have made monsters of unmaternal mothers.
Unwell Woman
2024