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The Physics of Love
Super-8 on video, 25 minutes,1998Original Score: Mary Feaster
Characters: Lauren Helms, Stephen Helms, Diane Steinkamp, Felice Shays
Additional Voices: Stephanie Gilman, Virginia Helms
Voice: Bob Adrian
The Physics of Love is an experimental work which tells the story of an unresolved relationship. Using the laws of science as metaphor, the work explores domestic labor, disease, violence and desire, and how social relations becomes inscribed on
the body.
Awards
Grand Prize, US Super-8 Film Festival, 1999Finalist, NYExpo of Short Film & Video, 1999
Honorable Mention, Experimental:
Chicago Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival, 1998
Special Mention, Locarno XIX Festival
of VideoArt, 1998