Blue Buttercream
Synopsis
During a session with her counsellor, a young woman with a chronic pain condition relives memories from her past and observes how her life has transformed because of her disease.
BLUE BUTTERCREAM begins with our protagonist Ava at her therapy session, throughout the session questions are asked which trigger memories of the last few months. We see her fall in love, we meet her friends and we see Ava’s chronic pain relapse begin. As her physical mobility breaks down, her internal reality becomes distorted. Memories become more distressing. Stymied of an ability to understand her body and to translate her experience to others, her capacity to function becomes increasingly difficult and her tolerance for intimacy breaks. As her counsellor asks Ava: what does she want, how could she achieve it? The film asks the audience to consider the limits of our identity in bodily terms, are the range of our experiences bound by our physical selves?
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Credits
Cast
Ava – Martha Crow
Counsellor – Serena Bunn
Olly – Bruce Allinson
Grace – Shannon Hayes
Mum – Juliet Knight
Dad – Christian Burgess
Crew
Director – Santiago Giraldo Arboleda
Writer – Martha Crow
Producer – Masha Thorpe
Co-Producer – Martha Crow
Executive Producer – James Patterson
Director of Photography – Fyras Slaiman
Production Designer – Isabel Alsina-Reynolds
Editor – Alicja Rymarowicz
Costume Designer – Ellie Campbell
Music Composer – Will Markham
Music Supervisor – Miles Mcallister
Additional Music – Ben Porter
Additional Music – Miles Mcallister
Unit Production Manager – Lucy Vikki Pardo
First Assistant Director – Susanna Newman
Second Assistant Director – Jamila Versi
Script Supervisor – Izzy Searle
Movement Co-ordinator – Elliot Minogue-Stone
Production Assistant – Hannah Brownlie
Production Assistant – Days Lowey
Art Director – Ella Bright
1st AC – Recel Wynsley Tonelada
Stills Photographer – Chloe Wells
Gaffer – Katerina Vahalova
Spark – Django Pinter
Sound Recordists – Isabel Sanchez Danieli and Charlie Hinde
Key HMU – Hanni Wellian
Sound Designer – Miles Mcallister
Colourist – Sebastian Ziabka
ADR Recordist – Yuri Shibuichi and Santiago Giraldo Arboleda
ADR Mixer – Miles Mcallister
Title Design – Alicja Rymarowicz
Graphic Designer – Can Köroğlu
Original Score
Composer by Will Markham
Arranged by Will Markham
Licensed Music
‘Logan 3’
Performed by SZRCA
Written by Benjamin Porter
Published by Kayak Records
Caterers – Hot Boti and Plant Based So It Is
