Born in 1975, Jenny Saastamoinen is the founder of L'oeil lucide, an associative structure established in France since 2009 which supports documentary creation. Under the educational direction of Denis Bourgeois and Mariana Otero at Creadoc, she directed the documentary films L'ombre du souvenir and Loin de moi. She is also the author and director of several sound creations: Odile, Voix du dedans and Chemins. Her last radio documentary, L'effondrement, was broadcast in 2020 on RTBF (Belgian Radio-television of the French Community).
Women are coming back from within themselves, struggling to become mothers. In a text, they tell the disappointment, the dizziness, the abysses, the shame ... They tell how to hide this emotional void from those around them, how this child becomes a persecutor, how crazy and intrusive thoughts happen. And the desire to die. And yet love too. And the difficulty in finding help, appropriate suppo...
Women are coming back from within themselves, struggling to become mothers. In a text, they tell the disappointment, the dizziness, the abysses, the shame ... They tell how to hide this emotional void from those around them, how this child becomes a persecutor, how crazy and intrusive thoughts happen. And the desire to die. And yet love too. And the difficulty in finding help, appropriate suppo...