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A Drownful Brilliance of Wings

Leaving August 31 • 8m 8s

Directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz and Gillian Sze • 2016 • Canada

Sofia Bohdanowicz sets words by the poet Gillian Sze to a succession of diaphanous, abstract images in this richly sensorial meditation on the connection between physical objects and the seemingly vanished past.

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