Cynthia Madansky

Devotion

Devotion

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16mm, 34 min. 2003
Director, Cynthia Madansky
Cinematographer, Carolyn Macartney
Music, Zeena Parkins



Devotion is a sparing travelogue of Istanbul. A foreigner meditates on the unraveling of a relationship while moving from hotel room to hotel room. In a city simultaneously devoted to Islam and secular nationalism, 
she finds refuge in the frailty and severity of the rituals of devotion.

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