Self Portrait Post Mortem
Self Portrait Post Mortem
| 05 November 2002 (USA)
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An unearthed time capsule consisting of footage of the maker's youthful self – an “exquisite corpse” with nature as collaborator. Bourque buried random out-takes from her first three films (all staged productions dealing with her family) in the backyard of her ancestral home (adjoining the grounds of a former cemetery) with the ambivalent intentions of both safe-keeping and unloading them (she was relocating). Upon examining the footage five years later she found that the material contained images of herself captured during the making of her first film. That discovery seemed handed over like a gift and prompted the making of this film, a metaphysical pas-de-deux in which decay undermines the image and in the process engenders a transmutation.

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Thehibikiew

Not even bad in a good way

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Voxitype

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Gurlyndrobb

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Siflutter

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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