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Breath/Light/Birth

Film Maker
Elder, Bruce
Year
1975
Country
Canada
Language
Format
16mm
Length
6
Genre
experimental

Video transformations of documentary footage of a woman giving birth, assisted by members of a religious commune. Isolation confronts the communal, the gruesome confronts the holy, in this most mysterious of events.

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