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Sara Eliassen

A Blank Slate

Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 27:0 | Norvège | 2014

A character is passing time in a desolate beach town. Slowly, the loneliness and alienation she experiencesin theforeign town makes her enter into an uncanny delusional realm, that blurs the memory of her own experiences with that of female protagonists from film history.

Sara Eliassen (b 1977) is a filmmaker based between Oslo and San Francisco. Her film Still Birds premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 and has later screened at several other international film festivals, amongst them Sundance 2010. Eliassen holds an MFA in filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute and was a studio fellow at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2011.