Come Worry with Us! Page #2

Synopsis: Violinist Jessica Moss and singer/guitarist Efrim Menuck are struggling to balance parenthood with making music in their internationally acclaimed Montreal-based band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. They are one of a growing number of bands to have accepted an infant (Efrim and Jessica's son, Ezra) into their touring life. Making a living has never been more difficult for musicians: a downloading generation has shattered the economics of the music industry, and constant touring has become synonymous with economic survival. Touring with children is both costly and complicated, yet Jessica and Efrim, and fellow band mates Sophie Trudeau, Thierry Amar and Dave Payant, are determined to combine family life and being on the road with the band's deep political commitment. As SMZ perseveres in making art and an honest living, we follow Jessica as she discovers the parallel path that mothers can find themselves on while attempting to pursue artistic endeavours along side their peers.
Director(s): Helene Klodawsky
Production: CatBird Films
 
IMDB:
7.8
Year:
2013
81 min
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and it's beautiful.

I mean, you get to

have a lot of things but I don't...

You don't get to step back,

I guess, from the situation,

the parenting,

and like respond to it.

Don't you find that art

about motherhood is...

There's an aspect

of like... (SHUDDERS)

-Yeah, I know.

-Why?

-...not interested.

-I know.

Isn't that weird?

Still, to this day,

women's narratives

are not considered as interesting

and that's just all there is to it

but I think maybe

there's something else.

Like there's

the time aspect.

Or that's what I'm realizing...

-But I think that's it.

...from watching you

is like...

-There's the time aspect.

-It's the time.

I just wish that I

could be a father.

Like I don't think

I want to be a mom.

-Nadia's going to

take you for a walk. -Mama.

-It's cold out.

-(CRYING)

Ezra, it's freezing out.

We're going for a walk.

MOSS:
There's no question in my mind

that I wanted and want to have kids.

NADIA:
Mmm-hmm.

-I've always known that.

MOSS:
But as I got older and as my life

became about being in a rock band

and being an artist

and being an independent lady,

I stepped away

from wanting to have kids

as soon as I could

because I knew that once I did,

it would mean...

That I would become

this mother.

There's this bizarre thing

that you become a mother and you

become like kind of grotesque, you know?

Even though everyone will say to you,

"Oh, it's so amazing what you're doing.

"It's so wonderful."

You know?

"Wow."

But at the same time you feel

this kind of pulling away.

Like, holy sh*t,

where did everybody go?

Everything changed,

you know?

I started playing

when I was five

with the idea that it could be

something serious in my life.

It was forced upon me and now,

of course, I'm so grateful that it was.

(SINGING)

Growing up it feels

like anything is possible.

And the moment that you become

a mother it stops feeling that way.

All of a sudden

we become less

even though in our own tiny

little world we become huge

because we become

somebody's mother.

I want so much to go back to what

I was doing.

MENUCK:
In this one,

she's going like this...

(VOCALIZES)

In this one, he's going like this...

(VOCALIZES LOUDER)

In this one, she's going like this...

(VOCALIZES LOUDER)

In this one,

she's going like this...

(VOCALIZES LOUDER)

-I wanna do it again.

-All right.

MENUCK:
I would give my right arm to

have like, you know, six months at home.

In this one,

she's going like this...

MENUCK:
The mother's job is

so much harder than the father's job.

And the gender balance

gets totally knocked on its ass.

You think you're doing

a good job with that stuff

and then you have a kid and

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