Loss Prevention
VideoTRT- 17:00. Directed, Filmed and Edited by Jeanne C. Finley & Doug DuBois in collaboration with John H. Muse. Music and Sound Design by Luke Dubois of the Freight Elevator Quartet.
Drama Queens, Guggenheim Museum
New York Video Festival
Women in the Director’s Chair Festival
San Francisco Independent Film Festival – Audience Award for Best Short Film
Dallas Video Festival
Art in Motion (AIM) festival, Los Angeles
Flickerfest, Australian International Short Film Festival
Cinematheque, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, May 2010
Loss Prevention combines documentary and fictional elements to tell the
story of Irene, who was arrested at the age of 79 for stealing a bottle
of aspirin from a Miami Wal-Mart and sentenced to ten weeks of Senior
Citizen Shoplifting Prevention School. Narrated through the voice of
her daughter, this film explores the alienation of aging and the
evolving relationship between a daughter and an elderly mother. The
visual material combines the lush Florida landscape with intimate
super-8 footage to create a subtle meditation on the conflicts of
parent and child, boredom and pleasure, accident and intention,
authority and subterfuge.
