Film Description:
"'This is a kind of fiction with multiple endings,' a starkly italicized caption opens this filmic ruse. After years away, a middle-aged woman revisits the maternity home where she once lived as a pregnant teenager. Drawing from traditions of observational documentary and ethnographic film, Chan's singularly mystical thesis film is an inspired, animist, fictional intervention in modes of self-representation. Personified by found objects, namely ornate assemblage sculptures crafted from paper fans and wooden legs, the unnamed 'faceless' protagonist contends with relapsing cycles of girlhood, maturation, and memory, in what unfurls as a feverish, textually charged marathon. Bereft of spoken dialogue, this work employs text with adroit, animated candour."
-- Toronto International Film Festival Inc.
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Film Description:
"A woman returns to the home where she lived as a pregnant teenager. Told through text, found objects, found footage and assemblage sculpture, this work questions and challenges conventional images and narratives of 'teen pregnancy' and reflects on contemporary experiences of self-representation and ways of remembering."
-- V tape
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