SHARP OBJECTS X HILL HOUSE
A struggling actress returns to the house she fled at sixteen to find her dead mother has been waiting for her.
🥀 sentient house
🥀 distorted reality
🥀 girlhood, motherhood & inherited trauma
🥀 "a ghost is a wish"
🥀 90s bollywood
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ALT a moodboard with 9 images:
Top Row:
1. a dark background with the text: "it's hard work. trying to make yourself into something your mother can stand to look at."
2. embroidered anatomical heart
3. carpeted red staircase with frayed edges.
Middle Row:
1. red threads connecting two faces.
2. behind the scenes of a film set, the monitor displays an image of a woman in water.
3. rusting iron fence with roses growing around it.
Bottom Row:
1. close-up of a red rose.
2. film strip
3. a burnt picture of hands, with the text: "or was my rage my mother's? or her mother's? or hers? an inherited creature?"
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