Our Summer Made Her Light Escape
2013 · 4 min · ★ 7.0
A wordless portrait of interiority, maternal ambivalence and the passage of time.
Directed by Sasha Waters Freyer
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Respiration · 2018Respiration
2018
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An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925 · 2012An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925
2012
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A protist is an organism like the algae that inspired Anna Atkins to create the first book of cyanotypes in 1843. Here, they are transformed into a protest against the colonial violence that enabled their creation.
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2003
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A counter-archive of the past in which public images and private lives, the Old World and the New, collide. The film reflects on how boundaries between genders and generations are shaped by vision and language, by technology and warfare.
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2023
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This movie is about loving things that are embarrassing and people who are inappropriate. It’s an essay film reflection on popular trash, football parties, older men, adolescent desire and the outrageous yet mundane humiliations of being a teenage girl in the 1980s. With sound design by Kevin T. Allen and performance cameos by filmmakers Roger Beebe and Jason Livingston.
The Waiting Time · 2005The Waiting Time
2005
Movie
THE WAITING TIME is an experimental documentary exploration of desire, conception and the long waiting time of gestation. It is a study of a year in the filmmaker's body at age thirty-five, becoming a mother for the first time. As a thinking woman's sex education film, THE WAITING TIME is a feminist attempt to address and articulate the question of maternal subjectivity, the experience of motherhood for the mother herself.
You Can See the Sun in Late December · 2010You Can See the Sun in Late December
2010
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Beautiful emptiness, anguish and calm. Absence rendered visible and traces of presence in winter light.
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2006
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Re-works an old alphabet film to explore one girl's acquisition of language in the age of digital reproduction and manipulation. With elephants and giraffes.
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