Summaries

Picaresques experiments with documentary and fictional structures, weaving portraits of three seemingly disparate protagonists together to ultimately create a film about the act of making something. The filmmaker sets out to make a movie about Catalina de Erauso, a nun-turned conquistador from the 16th century who wrote a memoir called Lieutenant Nun. She quickly becomes side-tracked, however, by a relationship she develops with a 10-year old through the process of casting, and the film turns in on itself. Multiple strategies and media are employed to challenge the binary notions of documentary and fiction.—Anonymous

Details

Genres
  • Adventure
  • History
  • Documentary
  • Short
Release date Jun 30, 2017
Countries of origin United States
Language English

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Tech specs

Runtime 20m
Color Color
Aspect ratio

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