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Through and Through

Directed by Barbara Sternberg
Canada, 1991 (experimental, 60 minutes, colour)
Through and Through
Image: © Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Film Description:
"The film is silent except for four short segments of sync sound, interviews with a man and a woman, which touch on two areas: control and anger, and the pressure of history on one's identity—how do I identify myself as 'I', how as part of a 'We'? The film is visual, perceptual; it was made in awe of the world that goes on with and without us and of our personal, human struggles. It is a film about life and death; a film of discrete units of the eternal and a film of living here and now. It was built up frame-by-frame. A film about power, played in insignificant terms, in the daily, barely notice gestures, scenes, frames. [...]"
-- Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Barbara Sternberg
Produced by: Barbara Sternberg
(sources)


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