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Dormancy
Dormancy

Dormancy

NR·2018·16m

Summary

Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual sterilization of "idiots, imbeciles, feeble minded or insane persons likely to procreate." Dormancy follows a young woman and her new husband who work the land and earn a small income herding sheep and working with lumber. The couple is lured into a rural clinic where they subjected to the sadistic goals of the doctors and eugenics field workers. For this modest family, life will never be quite the same...

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Director, Writer

Nicholas W. Callais

Director, Writer

Luke Becker-Lowe

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Released

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Budget:

$7.00

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$0.00

Keywords

prohibition era
vermont
eugenics
short film