Myrid Carten
Directing
Biography
Myrid Carten is an Irish film director from Donegal. She studied at Goldsmiths University of London and Central Saint Martins UAL.
Known For
When her mother Nuala goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself.
A Want in Her
‘I absorbed the women in my life as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face.’ (Vivian Gornick). Sorrow had a baby explores the mother-daughter relationship through multiple lenses: memory, beauty, and inheritance. Jumping between home movies, TV shows, and raw intimate documentary footage the short film asks: Who writes the stories in a family? Who can change them?
Sorrow had a baby
Three young women break bread - and possibly each other - over a late supper at the Fleadh.