Jelena's Song
National Film Board of Canada
Jelena's Song is an elegantly structured visual and sonic poem about the transformative power that emerges from an artist's journey through memory and the rituals of everyday life. Like memory itself, the film gathers fragments of images, freeze frames, faded family photographs and youthful photo-booth self-portraits, journals, poetry, an evocative sound design and the simple honesty of Jelena's voice into a lyrical tapestry that reconstructs her past and re-imagines her future.
Running Time
2 mins
Year
2010
Kanopy ID
1043223
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