Molonglo — Three Bodies

A short film by Dorothy Allen-Pickard inviting us to engage with the world through diverse perspectives

Three Bodies is a short film directed by Dorothy Allen-Pickard. It follows the journey of three people — Joy Addo, Sonia Boué and Kat Hawkins — as they make a journey from public to private space, from outside to in. The footage, shot by the film’s contributors, is accompanied by their own narration as they reflect on their experience and impressions of navigating the world through and in non-normative bodyminds — experiences of fitting and misfitting, of anxiety and pleasure. Three Bodies invites us to engage with the world through diverse perspectives, and thereby invites us to critically reflect on the privileges, frustrations and everyday joys of our own unique bodyminds as we navigate public and private spaces.

Contributors

Dorothy Allen-Pickard is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary theatre-maker from South-East London. In 2019, she received the BFI New Talent Award and was named as one of Broadcast’s Hotshots. Her work merges documentary, fictional and theatrical techniques and form, and she is a member of the award-winning multimedia theatre company Breach.

Nadine Monem is a writer, editor and publisher at common-editions. Nadine’s work is concerned with multiplicity, migration and building a lexicon of ethical relationality. Her work has featured in publications such as Elephant Magazine, The Gourmand and AnOther, among others, and she is currently working on her first piece of long-form non-fiction about coloniality and the feminine.