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Using the laws of science as metaphor, and recalling dramatic scenes from Hollywood cinema, this video explores an unresolved relationship between a mother and daughter.

Experimental, 1998   Length: 25 minutes   Director: Diane Bonder   Distribution:   Diane Bonder   101 Kane Street   Brooklyn, NY 11231 Premiere: Sunday, July 19, 1998 11pm, on Thirteen/WNET. (Repeat: Tuesday night, July 21, 1998 3am.)

Taking an experimental approach, Bonder examines her strained relationship between herself and her now deceased mother with great longing and love. The artist looks to science as a way to comprehend her relationship with her mother, drawing upon such logic as the law of physics to make sense of that physical connection. Maternal melodramas replay over and over again, as Bonder uses examples, including a series of Muybridge photographs showing a mother spanking her daughter, a series of mother/daughter snapshots cut to the sound of a Western shoot-out, and body fluids such as milk and blood to describe the exchange -- the essential connection (like it or not) -- that occurs between mothers and their children. Ironically, only in their respective illnesses (pictured with pills), cancer and drug addiction, did this mother and daughter ever come together and find some sort of common ground.
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