Movie Details
On Digital & Streaming:May 1st, 2021
Original Language:English
Cast & Crew
R
Rebecca Shapass
Editor
A
Anne Lesley Selcer
Director
A
Anne Lesley Selcer
Writer
Girl Is Presence (2021)
Plot
During the 2020 global pandemic filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her daughter Noa collaborated with Anne Lesley Selcer to create Girl is Presence The work is a form of reading and listening in response to disquieting words from Selcers poem Sun Cycle The films disparate objects reflect a disharmonious and tense list of voiced nouns The poems original tone contextualized by a book that deals with gender and power takes on an expanded sense here Against the uncertain and anxious pandemic atmosphere inside domestic space the girl arranges and rearranges a collection of small and mysterious things Commissioned by Small Press Traffic for Bay Area Shorts during the national shelterinplace order caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020