Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 20 minutes
A personal documentary about one woman’s journey in the first year after her partner’s untimely death from cancer, by filmmaker and psychotherapist Sarah Gibson. Combining actuality and animation, the film is a poetic exploration of the eighteen months following her partner Caroline’s death.
We enter into Sarah’s interior landscape of grief and loss through the experiences of Red Girl, an archetypal figure who emerges through the filmmaker’s paintings.
The Hundredth Room invites the audience to come on a journey that takes them through the process of grief and beyond, to confront the fear of death that lurks in daily living. The ‘hundredth room’ is a poetic metaphor for that which we fear, which is unknown and unconscious and ultimately is death itself. After her own brush with death, Sarah and Red Girl are drawn together for a night sea journey to a new understanding of what it means to be conscious of death in life.
writer/director Sarah Gibson
producer Jessica Douglas-Henry
Distributor: Ronin Films
