Dormancy (movie)
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Nicholas W. Callais , Luke Becker-Lowe
- Production companies: ACID Digital Media Productions
- Genre: Drama, History
- Budget: $7
- Release date: 8/24/2018
- Run time: 16 min.
Movie description
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...
