Rejoice
Across 16mm vignettes, Rejoice lives out her everyday life, roaming the streets, crashing parties and attracting trouble, all the while vividly dreaming of fighting everyone and anyone – including those close to her.
One day, running into two enemies in a public bathroom, Rejoice is at last afforded a release of her pent-up rage – but it comes at the cost of having to come to terms with what it means to be a young woman holding on to so much anger. Now, she must learn to navigate not only the world she inhabits but also herself.
Unclassified 18+
Warning: Contains coarse language, mature themes and depictions of violence
Course: BFA FTV Narrative
Director Biography
Lucinda De Palma is a writer and director based in Melbourne. Her interests lie in stories centred within the taboo and unspoken parts of the human experience, and the darker parts of womanhood.
Her previous works include Ode to Foots (2021), an experimental docu-fiction about a man in Footscray, Prayer in Jest (2022), a short about male adolescence, and her VCA graduating short film Rejoice, an exploration of young female rage.
Lucinda’s place as a storyteller serves to invite the audience to see the world, and ourselves in it, on her terms.