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    Coming Closer/ Standing Back

    • 1983
    • 00h 01m 33s
    • Nida Home Doherty
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    Synopsis

    Coming Closer/Standing Back uses a female figure walking on a beach in winter and a personal story to present feelings of personal and the impersonal.

    Categories

    • Experimental,
    • Landscape,
    • Mental Health,
    • Short

    Shooting Format

    • Betacam

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Saskatchewan,
    • Ontario

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Artist: Nida Home Doherty

    Provided By

    • Video Pool Media Arts Centre

    More By Nida Home Doherty

    Isolated

    • 1984
    • Nida Home Doherty

    Individual figures are silhouetted against the vastness of the prairie landscape. The camera pans back and forth from one figure to another. The rhythm of the camera’s movement parallels a voice-over of single words related to isolation.

    Isolated

    Drawn To

    • 1983
    • Nida Home Doherty

    Drawn To uses the suggestion of the erotic -women eating raw liver- to present personal feelings of compulsion and repulsion.

    Drawn To

    Forced Back

    • 1983
    • Nida Home Doherty

    Forced Back uses the structural aspects of the camera and the female figure to present personal feelings of gradually increasing constraint.

    Forced Back

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