Breaking Plates

Breaking Plates (2024) is a comedy, documentary film directed by Karen Pearlman.

A unique hybrid of documentary, silent film, drama and dance, 'Breaking Plates' puts revolutionary women of the past on the screen with present day filmmakers. Contemporary women talk to characters from 100 years ago, reanimate their antics and emulate their mayhem moves. As early 21st century performers step into the clothes of their early 20th century counterparts, battling their haywire machines, exploding gags, and eruptive bodies, they learn to wield humour as a weapon against the structures that contain them today.

Cast

Violette Ayad

Violette

Karen Pearlman

Richard James Allen

Handsome Hank

Julie-Anne Long

The Domestic Help

Emma Watkins

Em Mayhem

Jadzea Allen

Jaz