International Primere at 2014 St. Louis International Film Festival.

To ruminate means to think; to chew thoughts over and over, focusing on symptoms of distress… their causes, and their consequences. Gemma is in her mid-thirties: She is a childless woman, not in a serious relationship, who lives in the big city of London, primarily concentrating on work and survival. The years have slipped by and the things that appear to have fallen into place for her friends and peers still elude her. We never hear her speak. Instead the audience witnesses a series of events that make us question her happiness culminating in a visit to her gynaecologist.

This film is about age and time, being human, a woman, neither a victim nor a victor; focusing on the struggle that some have to endure to get their lives into the shape they want, and the realization that time won’t wait for them.

His Uterus; Her Lover is a fast-paced dry comedy which deals with the complexities of relationships in contemporary society and retains a simple moral- help the friends you love. The short is a witty, dialogue-driven narrative that takes place across a couple of days in the lives of four well-formed characters: Sophie, an attractive, assertive author is six months pregnant with Jonathan’s baby. Jonathan is gay, suave, and happily married. His husband Conner is worried about the strength of their marriage and whether it can support a child and whether Jonathan ever wanted it… or him. Sophie’s younger boyfriend, Richard, also worries about the impact of the child and withdraws from Sophie sexually. Sophie, in turn, becomes more and more frustrated. Comic issues are played out against the landscape of contemporary London: Sophie laments her sex life loudly at her book signing and consoles Conner in a suit shop while Jonathan teaches Richard how to sate Sophie in a crowded pub. The plot is bookmarked by Sophie and Jonathan travelling on a bus- they are in transit.

The film is a touching snapshot of their day to day lives- the warm relationships which buoy them and, of course, the biting London humour which invigorates them.