Twist of fate (Karen Aqua, 2009)
This experimental animated film explores the transformative experience of being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. This expressionistic piece captures impressions of such an experience: upheaval, uncertainty, a sense of physical intrusion, and loss of control. Exploring this emotional and physical landscape, the film visualizes an internal world inside the body, imagined on a cellular level. Imagery is based on journals of abstract drawing created during the filmmaker’s own cancer experience.
Director and writer: Karen Aqua
Soundtrack: Ken Field
Music: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Encanti
Technical assistance: Joey Kolbe
Running time: 9 min
Country: USA
Black Maria Film & Video Festival, Telluride Film Festival
