jen sachs

TRANSLATIONS

16mm, 3:30, 1999, hand-drawing, rotoscope, cut-out, photo collage

Synopsis:

A cathartic moment inspired by the turn-of-the-century case histories of
Freud and Breuer and Elaine Showalter's modern reinterpretation of hysteria
as a cultural disease.

 

Credits:

Director/ Producer/ Animator: Jen Sachs
Sound Editor: Jen Sachs

 

Screenings:

Films in the Forest (USA, 99), Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA, 00),
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche (Germany, 00), The Substation (Singapore, 01),
Transat Video (France, 01), CRASH (Mexico, 01), Utazu Town (Japan, 01),
Studio 21 Film Festival (Japan, 01), The Blinding Light!! (Canada, 01),
Zero Room (Mexico, 01), Multimedia Microcinema (Macedonia, 01, 02),
La Enana Maron (Spain,01), Cinema Slam (USA, 01), Project 101 (France, 01),
Barcelona Festival of Independent Video (Spain, 01),
Flicker Fest (USA, 01), Madurai Collective (India, 02),
NOVA (USA, 02), El Habito/CRASH (Mexico, 02), Rio Theatre (US, 03),
The Sprocket Ensemble Tour (US, 03) Moov Festival (US, 03)

 

see director's reel for clips