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Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play.
As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that
of a father who cared more for his career than for his
family, and of a daughter who was deeply affected by
Working in counterpoint to the forceful text are
sensual black and white images that depict both the
extraordinary and ordinary events of daily life.
Together, they create a formally complex and
emotionally intense film. " I regard it as one of the most intellectually lucid, aesthetically accessible, and emotionally moving avant-garde films produced in the past twenty-five years." GRAND PRIZE, KINO AWARDS, Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia GOLDEN GATE AWARD, San Francisco International Film Festival SPECIAL JURY AWARD, Atlanta Film Festival BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, USA Short Film and Video Festival, Texas JUROR'S CITATION AWARD, Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey GOLD JUROR'S CHOICE AWARD, Charlotte Film Festival, North Carolina The New York Film Festival; The Whitney Biennial; Viennale Film Festival Austria; Festival of Festivals, Toronto; “The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought: Women Avant-Garde Filmmakers in America, 1930-2000", Whitney Museum of Art, NY; Impakt Festival, Utrecht; Festival of American Independents: 1920-1990, Torino, Italy; Association for Women in Psychiatry Conference; Flaherty/Vertov Film Seminar, Latvia Cast: Voiceover by Jessica Lynn |
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