"SICK is a video I made in 1986 while in grad school at the San Francisco Art Institute. The voice-over is extemporaneous, created after I had shot and edited the image. The effects were done in-camera - the Art Institute had a studio with a large Grass Velley switcher and it coould generate a lot of colors - whatever you wanted - and it wasn't digital, so the colors are all along an analogue spectrum." - Cecilia Dougherty
Georgia Benfield, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child.
Imagine a surreal narrative, without dialogue, in a style reminiscent of the 1920s silent era and seen through the lens of moving voyeuristic camera that records the odd whereabouts of an unseemly group of marginal tenants.
Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife, who, with the help of her Jewish law-student husband, Serge, begins an unrelenting campaign after World War II to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.
This film deals with the contrasts of the Wilhelminian era in Berlin: the splendor of the monarchy, the economic and intellectual vitality of the up-and-coming imperial capital on the one hand, and the misery of the proletarians in the tenements on the other.
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