When her troubled mother goes missing after suffering a mental breakdown, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to Ireland to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house. Intimate, surprising, and often darkly funny conversations with her mother and other family members reveal the trials of loving someone who struggles with addiction and madness. Home videos from Myrid’s childhood and recordings of video installations from her current work form a playful blend of fictional and documentary elements, which compellingly capture the vicious cycle of care and rage. In fresh and inventive ways, the film returns to a familiar, universal question: how can we be with those we love without losing ourselves?
Ireland, UK, Netherlands 2024, '81
DIRECTOR: Myrid Carten
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
IDFA (2024)
Göteborg FF (2025)
First Look (2025)
Myrid Carten
Myrid Carten is an Irish filmmaker who makes works for cinemas and galleries. She trained in Artists’ Film at Goldsmiths University London and Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, UAL. Her work interrogates both the struggle for intimacy and the ways we are compromised by our pasts. She received the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award 2018-19. Her films have screened internationally and been supported by the BFI, Doc Society, Screen Ireland, NI Screen, New Dawn Fund and the Netherlands Film Fund. A Want in Her is her debut feature.
