Direction: Chick Strand

Direction Chick Strand

Plot Chick Strand’s Soft Fiction is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary approach with a sensuous lyrical expressionism.

Direction Chick Strand

Plot Strand spent over twenty years documenting her friend Anselmo Aguascalientes’ life, eventually creating a stunning trilogy of films—Anselmo, Cosas de mi vida, and Anselmo and the Women—tender portraits that are...

Direction Chick Strand

Plot An experimental film poem in celebration of life and visions. Techniques include live action, animation, montage and found images.

Direction Chick Strand

Direction Chick Strand

Plot Intimate documentary about young women who make papier mache fruit and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico. They have a gringo boss, but the factory is owned by his...

Direction Chick Strand

Plot A fascinating and mysterious work of immersive beauty. The ominous title of the film and a dedication to Anne Frank deeply inform our reading of its disturbing subtext.

Direction Chick Strand

Plot An Aztec romance and the dream of love. The greatest human desire of the anthropologist, the final contact with the informant. The rejection of the intellectual and the acceptance of...

Direction Chick Strand

Plot A Mexican flower seller’s story of personal tragedy is delicately illuminated in an intimate and moving act of portraiture that is both unsettling and liberating. In her final film, Chick...

Direction Chick Strand

Plot Poetic surrealism. Approach is experimental in relationship of image and sound. A film about the loss of innocence and the search for the essence of the human spirit. Funded by...

Direction Chick Strand

Plot Impressionistic surrealism in three acts. The approach is literary experimental with optical effects. There are three mental states that are interesting: amnesia, euphoria and ecstasy. Amnesia is not knowing who...

Direction Chick Strand

Direction Chick Strand

Plot Loose Ends is a collage film about the process of internalizing the information that bombards us through a combination of personal experience and media in all forms. Speeding through our...

Direction Chick Strand

Plot A “new narrative” film based on the visions of magic realism in an Anglo context. This is a gothic mystery that explores a reckless pursuit of interchangeable personalities and experience....

Direction Chick Strand

Plot Chick Strand’s first film, made while living in the Bay Area, features her young son Eric as a little boy traipsing through a mysterious landscape, perhaps pursued by the titular...

Direction Chick Strand

Plot A film poem using found film and stock footage altered by printing, home development and solarization. It is a film using visual relationships to invoke a feeling of flow and...

Direction Chick Strand

Direction Chick Strand

Direction Chick Strand

Direction Chick Strand

Plot A wet hot dream about sensuality.

Direction Chick Strand