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Erica Monde
Filmmaker
Researcher
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Director
01 There’s Not Much We Can Do
02 This Desert Will Rust Your Bones
03 I Was Born In The Month Of The Moon
04 You Shouldn’t Be Able To See The Mountains
05 A Portrait of The Pacific Composed of Images of The Mediterranean 
06 How I Assemble My Body From Many Parts

Producer
07 The Place Between Was and Will Be
08 M(other)hood
09 What Remains

Story Consultant
10 The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
Erica Monde
Filmmaker, Researcher
Co-founder of IMPRINT Documentary Collective
@imprint.documentaries
@erica.monde

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There’s Not Much We Can Do

Short Documentary
2022

United Kingdom

TRAILER


In this personal essay documentary, the director reflects on their journey of getting diagnosed with endometriosis through observing the invasive Japanese Knotweed. While both the disease and the plant grow disruptively through their respective environments, one is treated with urgency while the other is met with inaction. An ecofeminist meditation on the body, biology, care and control, There’s Not Much We Can Do Prompts us to question the very things we consider “natural” in the first place.

Directed and Edited by: Erica Monde
Producer: Clara Harris
Cinematographer: Marta Massa
Sound Designer/Recordist: Alexis Psillas

Developed, Supported and Executive Produced by Screen Scotland and the Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap Programme
For screening inquiries please contact ericamondefilms@gmail.com

Festival selections and screenings:

WORLD PREMIERE – Edinburgh International Film Festival, August 2022 (UK)
Inverness Film Festival, November 2022 (UK)
Glasgow Short Film Festival, March 2023 (UK)
Spit it Out Festival, June 2023 (UK)
Encounters Film Festival, September 2023 (UK)
Raindance Film Festival (Nominee best documentary short), October 2023 (UK)
DOC NYC, October 2023 (USA)
Take One Action Film Festival, December 2023 (UK)
ReFrame Film Festival, January 2024 (Canada)
Lived Perspectives, March 2024 (UK)
Mediamatic Japanese Knotweed Festival, April - May 2024 (Netherlands)
Davis Feminist Film Festival, May 2024 (USA)
EXPS:SLC, July 2024 (USA)
RestFest, August 2024 (USA)
Braziers International Film Festival, August 2024 (UK)
Les Mains Gauches Queer Feminist Film Festival September 2024 (France)
Shortscapes, September 2024 (UK)
ARKIPEL Jakarta International Experimental and Documentary Film Festival, September 2024 (Indonesia)
Dialogues Documentary Festival, September 2024 (USA)
Scottish Queer International Film Festival, October 2024 (UK)
Scottish Mental Health Arts Film Festival, October 2024 (UK)
Bucharest Feminist Film Festival, October 2024 (Romania)
CineToro Film Festival, November 2024 (Colombia)
University of Massachussetts, Amherst, December 2024 (USA)
 Vitreous Film Festival, February 2025 (Canada)
Festival Filministes, March 2025 (Canada)
International Feminist & Queer Festival Red Dawns, March 2025 (Slovenia)
Balkan Can Kino, April 2025 (Greece)