Thirst
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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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Jessica Joy Wise (their other films)
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Genre: Documentary |
| Country: Canada |
Copyright Year: 2001 |
| Original Format: 16 mm |
Color Type: Color |
| Sound Type: Optical Stereo |
Length: 00:16:00 |
| Original Language: English |
Subtitle Language: None |
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Label:
Blackchair Collection
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Other Info:
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
SCREENINGS:
August 12-17, 2003. Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (MI)
May, 2, 2003. London Lesbian Film Festival. (London, EN)
February 2, 2003. 11a Edition Lesbian International Film Festival. (Bologna, IT)
Friday, May 4, 2002. Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. (Toronto, ON)
Dec. 13, 2002. Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival. (Taipei, TW)
April 29 & May 1, 2003. Sprockets. Toronto International Film Festival For Children. (Toronto, ON)
September 2001.Montreal World Film Festival. (Montreal, PQ)
October 2001.Vancouver International Film Festival. (Vancouver BC)
May 2002.Worldwide Short Film Festival. (Toronto, ON)
September 2002. Antimatter Film Festival. (Victoria, BC)
Saturday, November 23, 2002. Vancouver Underground Film Festival. (Vancouver, BC)
Friday, November 15, 2002. Optic Nerve Moving Media Festival. (Peterborough, ON)
May 2001.Herland Film Festival. (Calgary, AL)
October 2001. Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival. (Toronto, ON)
November 17, 2001. Barcelona Festival of Cinema. (Barcelona, SP)
August 21, 2002 Microcinema’s Independent Exposure (Providence, RI); the women’s edition 2002 featured fifteen short works by female directors, Columbus Theater
August 27, 2002 Microcinema’s Independent Exposure (SF, CA); 111 Minna Street Gallery
August 30, 2002 Microcinema’s Independent Exposure (Houston, TX); the women’s edition 2002 firestation #3
November 3, 2002 Microcinema’s Independent Exposure (Santa Cruz, CA); the women’s edition 2002 at Rio Theatre
January 14, 2003 Microcinema’s Independent Exposure (Ann Arbor, MI); the women’s edition 2002 at the Michigan Theater in cooperation with the Women’s Studies Department of the University of Michigan
January 23, 2003 Microcinema’s Independent Exposure (Winnipeg, MN); the women’s edition 2002.
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