Patsy Ramsey Auditionee / Herself
Documental que cuenta la trágica muerte de la reina de la belleza infantil estadounidense JonBenét Ramsey. En 1996, con tan sólo seis años de edad, la niña murió estrangulada en su casa poco después de ganar un concurso de belleza. Se investigó el caso durante 15 meses sin llegar a ninguna conclusión y, a día de hoy, el terrible asesinato de la joven no está resuelto y aún continúa en la memoria colectiva de EE.UU.
Narrator (voice)
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce Elder’s filmmaking from 1975 to 1994. In ancient Egyptian culture, the Book of the Dead consisted of religious texts intended to help preserve the spirit of the departed in the afterlife — but in Elder’s reading, that comforting idea of continuity takes on a rather darker cast. Lamentations is comprised of a complex audio and visual patchwork: a philosophical meditation superimposed as text throughout the film; vignettes featuring a comical but disturbing Franz Liszt, a debate between Isaac Newton and George Berkeley, an angry, deranged man in an alley, and an arrogant psychiatrist; and a final search for salvation in the forests of British Columbia, the American Southwest, and Mexico’s Yucatan.
