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I Have Lost Myself

Synopsis

Documenting the daily rehearsals and technical experiments of the performance piece, 'Give Me the Key'. Filmed daily over thirty days for a future live art performance, Ginger sets up her experiments in-between caring for her mother who is never seen but is ever present in another room. The strain of filming every day whilst caring for a mother near the end of her life becomes too much. After a trip out to the pub and recovering from a dementia outburst, Ginger breaks down on camera and admits for the first time that she is her mother's full time carer and not the Hollywood creative she once was. What unfolds is the colliding of performance and the every day as the artist slowly loses her sense of self.

I Have Lost Myself is a powerful and disturbing statement on family relationships and responsibility.
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Details

Year
2017
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
30 min
Director
Ginger Liu
Producer
Ginger Liu
Editor
Ginger Liu
Screenwriter
Ginger Liu
Director of Photography
Ginger Liu
Sound
Ginger Liu
Principal cast
Ginger Liu

Genre

Experimental

Categories

Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Ginger Media & Entertainment

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