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Bone Wind Fire

Directed by Jill Sharpe
Canada, 2011 (documentary, 30 minutes, colour, English)
Also known as "Désert, vent, feu"
Bone Wind Fire
Image: © National Film Board of Canada
Video (National Film Board of Canada)
Video (National Film Board of Canada) [French]

Film Description:
"Bone Wind Fire is an intimate and evocative journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O'Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo—three of the 20th century's most remarkable artists. Georgia O'Keeffe lived and painted in the sun-baked clarity of the American Southwest; Emily Carr in the lush jungled green of the BC rainforests; and Frida Kahlo in the hot and dusty clamour of Mexico City. Each woman had her own response to her environment, to the people that surrounded her and to the artistic or practical challenges she faced in wringing beauty and truth from her particular time and place. Bone Wind Fire uses the women's own words, taken from their letters and diaries, to reveal three individual creative processes in all their subtle and fascinating variety. In thirty carefully prepared and creatively photographed minutes, the film captures the view through the artists' eyes."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Jill Sharpe
Produced by: Yves J. Ma, Tracey Friesen
Participants: Rebecca Jenkins, Shirley Broderick, Tabitha St. Germain, Jeanne Hertz, Barbara MacFarlane, Deborah Cameron, Susan Hillman, Kate Robbins, Antoniella Ave Reyes, Ivette Hernandez, Rosa Martinez
Cinematography: Sylvaine Dufaux
Animation: Michael Mann
Film Editing: Michael Brockington
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
(sources)

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