1999 | United States | Experimental

Letter to a missing woman

  • English - 5 mins
  • Director | Mary Patten
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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Letter to a missing woman, based partly on memories of someone who has been a political fugitive since 1983, combines documentary "evidence" and fiction in an imaginative reconstruction of public documents and private history. This is a quiet, obsessive piece addressing the human costs and repercussions of re-inventing oneself – one’s body, memories, and future – as a living piece of propaganda. The writer/narrator of this "crazy letter" is an unreliable one, a composite of half-truths, paranoid digressions, and feelings of loss.

Memory Absence Feminism Loss Identity
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