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"Tammy Ballaban wants to leave her mark, to be remembered, to stay safe. So she stops eating. An unconventional and beautifully conceived exploration of eating disorders, hunger, desire and our need for identity and control. A sumptuous collage of images and sound reflects the amorphous dialectic between conscious and unconscious drives..." Lynne Fernie for Hot Docs An unconventional and beautifully structured meditation about eating disorders, hunger and desire, our need for identity, and control.
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Thirst (****) uses voice-over and a mixture of new footage and random images to create a short about young women and anorexia. This subject has been so thoroughly pawed over by the media, you'd think it would be difficult to find a new angle, but Wise's approach somehow makes the women's pain seem fresh without resorting to sensational images of emaciated girls. Eye weekly, Toronto, 08.30.01 Thirst is an earnest look at a woman's fight against anorexia. NOW Magazine, Toronto, 08.30.01 "When you suffer as an anorexic, you fill the hole by keeping it empty. Where most people find fresh delight now here and now there, the anorexic finds fresh delight in denying." That's the opening of Thirst, a 15-minute made-in-Toronto documentary about a girl with anorexia…. the extraordinary film by Jessica Joy Wise. The Toronto Star, 05.03.02. In just 15 minutes, Jessica Joy Wise, takes audiences on an eye-opening journey into the world of anorexia. In Thirst, Wise artfully weaves together captivating images, a fictional storyline and voice-over by the film’s subject, Tammy Ballaban, to affect a complex “experimental-documentary.” Together, the elements of the film form a picture of an illness that is frequently steeped in confusion and misunderstanding. The Art of Living, 05.05.02 “What made this film interesting was the juxtaposition of the visual and the narrative” West-End Review, 06.01.01 “Amazingly insightful and direct to the essence of addictions through poignant narration, great directing and editing.” Moving Pictures, 03.03.02 There currently are no reviews available
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