| Twist of Fate
(2009 • Running Time: 8:40)
Soundtrack: Ken Field
Music: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Encanti
This 35mm experimental animated film explores
the transformative experience of being diagnosed with a life-threatening
illness. This expressionistic piece captures impressions of such
an experience: upheaval, uncertainty, a sense of physical intrusion,
and loss of control. Exploring this emotional and physical landscape,
the film visualizes an internal world inside the body, imagined
on a cellular level.
“Modern illness is a combination of
the scientific, the mysterious, and the ineffable—a startling
subject for Aqua, one of the animation world's most playful, rhythmic
talents.”
— Telluride Film Festival
“A masterpiece. I was deeply touched.”
— Branka Bogdanov, Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston
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| Telluride Film Festival, 2009 |
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| Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2009 |
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| Starz Denver Film Festival, 2009 |
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| Anima ’09 International Animation Festival, Argentina |
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| Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2010 |
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| Big Muddy Film Festival, 2010 |
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| Atlanta Film Festival, 2010 |
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| Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 2010: Director’s Choice
Award |
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| Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France, 2010 |
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| Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, 2009 |
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| M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2009 |
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| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, 2009 |
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| Medical Film Symposium, Philadelphia, 2010 |
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| Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
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