USA,
1994, 57 min
Shown in 1995
CREDITS
- dir
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Marina Zurkow, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury
- prod
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Marina Zurkow, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury
- scr
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Marina Zurkow, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury
- cam
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Jim Fealy
- editor
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Spiro C. Lampros
- cast
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Joan MacIntosh, Tony Torn, Ching Valdes/Aran
- source
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Marina Zurkow
- gga award
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Best New Visions—Video
OTHER
Body of Correspondence tells the complex story of a postmortem menage a trois involving an obsessed archivist and two dead women whose letters he curates. In uncovering the letters, he unwittingly allows the women a second chance to reread them and relive their intimate relationship. Through the recounting of rich and often ribald tales, the two vividly reembodied ghosts lead the archivist to abandon his objective stance for a more subjective, if somewhat unsettling participation in their history. Conceived as a creative autobiography, the video reflects the directors’ ten-year history as collaborators and friends. With confidence and economy they punch holes, open doors and create seams in the seemly surfaces of historical representation. What begins as the archivist’s struggle to balance memory and imagination becomes a compelling and passionate love story.
—Jennifer Taylor
FACTOID #27
A surrealist stop-motion animator, the Czech Jan Svankmajer, was the first recipient of the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award in 1997. The POV Award honors the lifetime achievement of a filmmaker who works outside of feature-length narrative filmmaking.
