Films & Sound Collages
Chicago Filmmakers

Nina Fonoroff's The Accursed Mazurka (1994, 40 min) "the limits personal identity are tested in a fabulation of diaristic narratives case histories, and random musings around the occasion of mental breakdown, as reconstructed by a number of women who have in their several ways lost their reason.


10/23/1998 - 10/23/1998

8:00pm


Nina Fonoroff's The Accursed Mazurka (1994, 40 min) "the limits personal identity are tested in a fabulation of diaristic narratives case histories, and random musings around the occasion of mental breakdown, as reconstructed by a number of women who have in their several ways lost their reason. They are alternately helped, hindered, supported and misunderstood by 'care providers' and friend, and by the limitations of their own insights on the road to recovery." (N.H.) Fonoroff's A Knowledge They Cannot Lose (1989, 17 min) reflects on her father's death, while her poetic Department of the Interior (1986, 8.5 min) is a "richly mysterious film about visual and aural perception." (Artweek) Fonoroff, who currently teaches film at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, will also present several sound collages at the show.

Director
Nina Fonoroff

Production
Chicago Filmmakers

Tags: Film, American, 1994