MS SLAVIC 7

Audrey (Deragh Campbell) goes to Harvard’s Houghton Library to look at a particular collection of letters and unravels a little storm. The collection contains, among many things, a correspondence between two polish poets displaced, her great-grandmother, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa, and Jozef Wittlin, who wrote to one another between 1957 and 1964. She is the literary executor of her great-grandmother’s estate, and these letters have been purloined. By moving forward and backward in time, the film explores both the details of this intrigue and its emotional implications. In the third film of a saga we could call Audrey Benac, Archival Detective, Audrey immerses herself in the intimate space of a forgotten artist by facing her letters as objects and, by doing so, encounters the very fabric of oblivion and faces its injustices, a closed system of knowledge and prestige that leave many behind.

Written by Lucía Salas

Available to watch on The Criterion Channel and DAFilms.

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