Film Description:
"Set in a jeans production facility, the blue-collar night shift of a women's workforce is upended by the arrival of a mysterious new worker called Opie. On each pair of jeans Opie sews and stitches, she also places a curse for its future wearer. Narrated by a shadowy and furtive pair of hands, [Lesley Loksi] Chan videotapes and maneuvers acetate sheets of still images to depict scenes of a fast-paced textile factory, placing on top of them a series of paper cut-outs of story text and dialogue. Scored by the hazardous din of sewing machines en masse, the dust-specked projections of Curse Cures not only imbibe the rhythms of industrial handiwork, they motion a laborious suspense towards pendulously freeing horror."
-- Toronto International Film Festival Inc.
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Film Description:
"The arrival of a new worker to a jeans factory causes changes to the rhythms of the workplace. This mysterious narrative integrates personal and collective history with fiction. The visuals were created with both found images and original photography reproduced on acetate sheets which were subsequently sewn together and projected onto a wall and video-taped. This mixed-media work is a reflection on the repetitive labour and materiality of textile work and the im/possibilities for resistance to challenging working conditions."
-- V tape
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