Heartbeat

Heartbeat brings you inside the world of a woman’s miscarriage. You don’t get to be her, or feel what she felt. But you get to be with her while the story of her loss unfolds. It’s a world of impressions, where pain and confusion reign and she tries to make sense of what is happening to her and what she should do. The story leads to a decision. One that might be regretted forever. Johanna chose to flush her baby away. The horror of this decision stays with her as she processes what happened to her.Now the future looks different than she had hoped and imagined. She and her husband must face it alone together.

Dee Harvey
Dee Harvey is an award-winning director specialising in immersive media and virtual reality filmmaking. Her film Heartbeat, a verbatim VR documentary about miscarriage, won Best Narrative at Raindance Immersive in June and the Audience Award at Art*VR in Prague in October. In November 2004 she directed Medusa’s Notebook, a dome projection experience based on a poem by Maria McManus, exhibited as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival. In 2023 she directed Lost in the Luminous City, an augmented reality poetry reading by Moyra Donaldson. Projects in development are Loss, a verbatim feature documentary about stillbirth, Carbon Women a VR/MR opera, and an Irish language feature film.