Cynthia Madansky

Still Life

Still Life

Password: SL

Super 8mm, 35mm print, 15 min. 2004

Director, Cynthia Madansky
Music, Zeena Parkins

Distribution CFMDC, http://www.cfmdc.org/node/2171
Talents Video 3, http://www.talentsvideo.com/en/artists/cynthia_madansky/

Still Life gazes unflinchingly at the violence of war, observing the eerie architecture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip collapsed under Israeli occupation. This portrait provides brutal witness to how government sanctioned destruction metes upon structures of home and State. Unlike the mediated images of current warfare, Still Life examines the effects of the destruction of Occupation through the details of cinematic landscapes and its inherent inhabitants. In its relentless questioning reaffirmed with a unique and unremitting soundtrack by composer Zeena Parkins, Still Life forces us to focus on details of devastation.

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