Nana (Screening with short Letter)

Thursday, November 14
4:00 pm
Letter

2012 / Russia & Netherlands / 20 min / Digital File

Director:  Sergei Loznitsa
Print Source: Atoms & Void

In remote rural Russia there is an old wooden asylum. Where people dream of letters real and imagined.

Nana
2012 / France / French with English subtitles 68 min / 35 mm film

Director: Valarie Massadian
Cast: Nan Goldin
The French film Nana tells a unique and harrowing story of a little girl left all alone. Nana is four years old and lives on a pig farm with her family. Even though she hasn’t been around long she is attuned to the ways of the world by instinct and by witnessing the daily workings of the life around her. As seen completely through her point of view, the film plunges the audience into what she sees and feels through her young eyes. When unforeseen circumstances end in Nana being abandoned on the outskirts of the farm, we watch helplessly as the little girl must fend for herself and figure out how to survive in the isolating depths of nature. An intimate exercise in experimental filmmaking, Nana features a remarkable, untrained, and natural actress at its core, and a mesmerizing story that illustrates the innate resiliency of the human spirit.