USA,
1999, 53 min
Shown in 2000
CREDITS
- dir
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Sandra Davis
- prod
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Sandra Davis
- cam
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Sandra Davis
- editor
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Sandra Davis
- source
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Sandra Davis, 1503 Hyde St., San Francisco, CA 94109. FAX: 415-474-6822.
eugelily@aol.com
- gga award
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Certificate of Merit, New Vision—Film
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COMMENTS
Screened with An Angel Passes and Contacts Nan Goldin.
OTHER
Experimental filmmaker Sandra Davis, whose work has been included in major retrospectives at the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Pompidou Center in Paris, presents the personal impulses, feelings and thoughts of three women in a series of moving tableaux. Using moments of darkness interspersed with images taken from both original and archival footage, she patches together a quilt of symbolic imagery. The clashing images include European architecture, the Anita Hill Congressional hearings, opera, 1950s educational films and abstract color and light explorations. “The media has created the commodification of and participated in the fetishizing of women and nature,” Davis says. She contrasts the conditions imposed on women with a concept of personal freedom that allows one’s true nature to coexist with others.
—Isabel Sadurni
FACTOID #14
The longest film at the Festival, Sátántangó directed by Béla Tarr, screened in 1995. This Hungarian black comedy clocked in at 435 minutes (just over seven hours).
