

She Makes a Moving Picture
2025-09-08 · 3 min · Not rated
How is a film made? Probably not in this off-kilter, wacky and surreal way. An artist decides it's time to put her dreams on film, but she interprets the "usual" steps of the filmmaking process with her own inimitable results.
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- Deb Ethier
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