Contractions

A couple of years after Roe v. Wade was struck down, the ruling that had guaranteed the right to abortion in the United States since 1973, vegetation grows unchecked on the walls of an empty clinic in Memphis (Tennessee). In this abandoned setting, a group of women, some hand in hand with their partners, seem to recreate a sort of off-screen abortion: the entrance and exit of the clinic. We do not see their faces, but the sound guides us through it: in the voices of two women, the testimonies of those who once exercised a right that has since been lost. (KS)