Letter to a missing woman
Mary Patten
1999 | 00:05:27 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 | Video
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Activism, Body, Chicago Art, Death and Dying, Literature, Politics, Surveillance
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.
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