Convention requires every Catholic family to name at least one of their daughters in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Mary, Maryanne, Marion... BAPTISM is about how writer and filmmaker Marilyn Freeman could never get in synch with that name - Marilyn. In a telling so intimate it seems to come over a telephone as midnight, Freeman delivers her story in a one-of-a-kind family portrait. An unexpected visual mix accompanies her voice while a rotating cast of lip-synching Marilyn stand-ins enact the effort to conform. Funny, affecting, and original, BAPTISM is a video essay about mystical inheritances, a mother's secret, and family.
—Marilyn Freeman