I'll Be Your Mirror

The last work by Bay Area experimental filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947-1995) is described by this year's New York Film Festival as "a globe-spinning collage haunted by thoughts of mortality." Restoration editor, Jeff Scher; Assistant restoration editor, Ascencion Serrano. (22 mins, Color, 16mm, With thanks to Ascension Serrano, Michael Friend at the Academy Film Archive, and The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS)I'll Be Your MirrorNan Goldin/Edmund Coulthard (U.K., 1995)"I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost." The art photographer Nan Goldin's closest friends have been her camera's subjects for over twenty-five years. It is a shared intimacy: "I wasn't crashing: this was my party," she says of the drag queens and other "outlaw" artists who made up her communal tribe in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s the house that Nan built to replace the sad bricks of her middle-class upbringing began to show signs of early decay. Now Goldin faces the loneliness of the survivor. "So many of my friends have died-the people who knew me best, who held my history, and were meant to be my future." I'll Be Your Mirror was commissioned by BBC, created from Goldin's photographs, Super-8 films and contemporary interviews. A very personal film that is also a record of a generation, it captures a distinctive Goldin style: movement, out of the frame.

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