Stories About My Body | Dome Cinema
Sun, 06 Sept
|Dome Cinema and Bar
O’Reilly turns her own body into a map of memory, mischief, and motherhood.
Time & Location
06 Sept 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Dome Cinema and Bar, 38 Childers Road, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
Stories About My Body is Morgana O’Reilly’s fearless, funny, and unexpectedly tender 70-minute feature making its world premiere in the NZICF. Created and performed by Morgana O'Reilly (The White Lotus) and co-directed with her husband and real-life birth partner, 2025 BAFTA nominee Peter Salmon (After the Party).
O’Reilly turns her own body into a map of memory, mischief, and motherhood. With the precision of stand-up and the intimacy of a confession, she traces a life lived in skin: 78 organs, 206 bones, 32 teeth, 8.8 kilograms of armour, and two whole human bodies brought into the world.
What begins as a wildly candid comedy special blooms into a story-driven film of sharp observations and big-hearted truths - spanning diary entries from ’98, boobs, birth, selling toes in New York City, and the ongoing, complicated task of learning to like her chins - this is a celebration of messy, magnificent womanhood.