Johnnie Mazzocco's Reel

This is an audio recording of "What I Want," the short story that inspired my feature film, FOUND OBJECTS, read by yours truly.

FOUND OBJECTS is a story of loss and inspiration and a search for self, told from the perspective of Claire Randall, shadow box artist and wife and mother of three. The journey begins the morning after Claire’s family’s home has burned down. FOUND OBJECTS is about Claire’s journey to reinvent herself as a mother, as an artist, and as a woman. It’s about creative women’s compulsion to make art and their struggle to do so in the domestic sphere. It’s about gender, gender roles, the...