Ana: Portrait in Days

 

 

1996 / English / 16mm / 37 min


Written & Directed by Liselle Mei Cinematography: Sam Selva 
Production Designer: Mercedes Alfonsin
Costume Designer: Philip Heckman
Sound Designer: Don Mei  Music by Yuzuru Sadashige
Starring: Maria Galante, Zaniz Jakubowski, Bill Steele.


1st place Wasserman award NYU First Run Film Festival, 1996
Best Experimental Short: Empire State Exhibitions.
National finalist American Student Academy Awards, 1996.
Montreal Nouveau film festival 1996.
Palm Springs International Short Film Festival 1996.
11th Annual Haig P. Manoogian screenings at the Directors Guild of America LA.


"Liselle Mei’s ‘ANA: PORTRAIT IN DAYS’ is Bresson-like in its surface inaction and transcendental style. Mei’s experimentation with lighting and sound design wisely serve her storytelling, which is more about mood and subtext than conventional plot and character.” (Review by David Bogoslaw MONITOR NEW YORK INDEPENDENT Vol1 No7 April 1 1996

 

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