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Available for rent
11 min
Canada, 1989

Production : Ann Marie Fleming
Contenu sensible: Ce film traite d'agression sexuelle et de violence.
English
French

Best Canadian Student Film Award 1989

Intimacy



Synopsis


"Fleming’s perilous travelogue recites, in first person voice-over, a tale of two cities. The first is Brindisi, where the patent sexism of her surroundings lead her to seek refuge in her unscrupulous tour guide’s hotel room. The second moves closer to home, where the simplest of street crossings becomes a nightmare journey of dark collisions, broken bones and ambulance drives.”— Mike Hoolboom

A word from Tënk


Not everyone can be an experimental filmmaker. Regardless of what some may think, it requires a good deal more than simply installing a static camera on a building for 8 hours or constructing erratic collages from poorly defined, vacillating images that will turn the most open-minded cinephiles into epileptics. One needs, in fact, to have something to say. Such was the case with Warhol in Empire State and with the works of Canadian filmmaker Mike Hoolboom. It is also the case with Vancouverite Ann Marie Fleming and her striking film You Take Care Now. From the moment of its release in 1989, the barely 12-minute short made by a budding filmmaker in her early 20s elided its initial label as a banal student film, creating a shock wave that can still be felt today.

 

A film of impressions, visually poetic and seemingly chaotic with its combinations of real and re-enacted scenes cut with animated sequences, documentary tracking shots, found footage, and retouched images, You Take Care Now presents as an amalgam of dreams and memory. Edited to resemble cascades of thoughts, the film creates both emotional and intellectual connections between elements that at first blush appear unrelated, but which create dialogue and play off one another. In voiceover, with a tone bordering on innocuous, yet still eminently personal and delicately feminist, Fleming uses humour and empathy to tell the story of two profoundly intimate events that marked her life: a rape and an accident. You won’t walk away from this film unscathed.

 

 

Claire Valade
Critic and programmer

 

 

Item 1 of 4

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