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DVD 2009

Colour, Video, Sound, 14 min

Chile, USA

Published/distributed by Filmarmalade

ISBN/EAN: 2100000018741

Ratio 04:03

Region 2

Price: £13.27
(Including VAT at 20%)

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Preemptive Disappearance

Benitez, Francisca

Francisca Benitez's Preemptive Disappearance describes the effects of the Patriotic Act on artists living in New York as told through the tender recounting of someone who discovers, when returning home one day, that her husband has been arrested for taking photographs 'in the wrong place'. Benitez's film slowly draws us into the emotional turmoil and sense of loss that is felt when someone close to you disappears and allows us a powerfull and dramatic insight into the personal insecurity suffered by many people after 9/11.

Francisca Benitez recently exhibited work at the Westport Arts Centre, Connecticut; Exit Art, New York; Smack Mellon, New York; Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona; Valenzuela Klenner Galeria, Bogota and at the Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York. She was born in Chile and lives and works in New York.

Extras
DVD featurette includes a specially commisioned interview with Francisca Benitez at Gordon Shrigley's studio in London by Katie Guggenheim and Dan Smith.

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