From the film-maker:

The cheeky boy ignorant of his situation. The innate selfishness possessed by the young. The protective mother glancing knowingly to the viewer. These are the delightful layers of ‘real’ life that inspired me to adapt this intriguing and playful combination of innocence and confusion into my own story which depicts a child seeing his mother as a woman for the first time and not simply his duty bound carer.

Moreover, I attempt to mirror Cranach’s duality of understanding against misunderstanding; with the question of whether Christopher flees the church because he has knocked over his mother’s flowers or because he saw her being unusually close to her friend? Using both low camera angles and eye level shots the story is told from the child’s perspective, but juxtaposed with the mother’s concern for her son and her sensed inability to act selfishly whilst burdened by the responsibilities of motherhood.

Benjamin Thomas

A piece inspired by Cupid complaining to Venus, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1472-1553