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Released
2000 · FILM

In Absentia

Runtime
20 min
Animation

Synopsis

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spotlights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copybook. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but made of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come."

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Principal cast & crew: 5

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Craft leads on file

Shot by Stephen QuayScored by Karlheinz Stockhausen

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