The joy of life / Frameline ; Stone Soup Productions presents ; writer/director Jenni Olson ; co-producers, Julie Dorf, Scott Noble.

Quiet as a reflecting pool in a meditation garden, this experimental feature is brilliantly executed and practically impossible to classify. The spare, lovely landscape shots of a San Francisco hauntingly vacant are paired with noir-style voice-overs that combine romantic poetry, cinema-studies esot...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Corporate Authors: Frameline (Firm)
Stone Soup Productions
Strand Releasing (Firm)
Other Authors: Olson, Jenni
Dorf, Julie
Noble, Scott
Dodge, Harry
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Language:English
Published: [San Francisco, Calif.] : Frameline : Distributed exclusively by Strand Releasing, [2006], ©2006.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Sex role.
Lesbianism.
Gender identity.
Lesbians > Identity.
Lesbians > Social conditions.
Suicide > California > San Francisco.
Suicide.
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)
California > San Francisco.
California > San Francisco > Golden Gate Bridge.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Genre:
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
Quiet as a reflecting pool in a meditation garden, this experimental feature is brilliantly executed and practically impossible to classify. The spare, lovely landscape shots of a San Francisco hauntingly vacant are paired with noir-style voice-overs that combine romantic poetry, cinema-studies esoterica (Meet John Doe and Vertigo), and the contested politics of the Golden Gate Bridge, with its open invitation to suicides. This gently hypnotic film is personal confessional, poetry reading, essay film, and social-advocacy documentary, suffused with the filmmakers love of San Francisco and its residents.
Note:Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005.
Special features: Jenni Olson's acclaimed shorts: Meep! Meep! (2 min.), Blue Diary (6 min.), Sometimes (30 sec.); Original theatrical trailer, Information guide: The Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Barrier Campaign [text slideshow].
Videorecording.
Call Number:CO5 D0068441 VideoDVD
Credits:Cinematographer, Sophia Constantinou ; editor, Marc Henrich ; music, Weldon Kees.
System Details:DVD, Region 1, presentation aspect ratio 1.33:1.
Participant or Performer:
Voiceover by Harriet "Harry" Dodge, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.