The Non Violence International Film Festival 2008

Blue Sky is an experimental film about the aftermath of a young girl's sexual assault and the waking nightmares that follow. The film takes an intimate look at the healing process between a mother and daughter through dance and the shakuhachi voices of the ancestors. Through deserts, rich green fields, sky and deep underwater, Blue Sky does not look away, rather, it takes the audience through the healing process with an unflinching eye. The painful, beautiful, obsessive revisiting of a moment as we remember it. Through written letters, the young girl tries to articulate her experience into concrete words, trying to tell her mother what happened. The film explores new avenues of telling and expressing the loss of something so deep and earth shattering. Blue Sky calls us back to ourselves as we rise like dust, summoned by the voice of the ancestors. We revisit childhood songs and memories that take us into the realm of past innocents and a loving mother daughter relationship. The film asks the question, how do we begin to live again after death? In the end, the thing that saves us from drowning in our past is love. The young woman is able to find her way back through the song of her mother's loving voice. The beginning of the real healing process can occur once the first breath is taken and the young woman can begin to real again. Blue Sky brings each painful moment closer and embraces the old wounds, saying 'Holy, Holy.'