In Absentia
2000•20m•6.5•Released
Animation
A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come."
Director
Stephen Quay
Languages
No Language
Studio
Pipeline Films
Cast
Marlene Kaminsky
Woman
Kathinka Pasveer
Female voice
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Male voice
Production
Company
Pipeline Films
Company
BBC
Company
Koninck Studios
Producer
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Producer
Keith Griffiths
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