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A nation is collapsing... It's harvest time in Ithaca, a shanty town at the far edge of a massive wheat belt. Roaming women labourers return to find their jobs stolen by a greedy mill boss in league with a cabal of land barons, a private prison farm and an army on a hair-trigger. A state of emergency is declared and young conscripts are dispatched. The army unleashes a terrible vengeance and the people have only one choice...resistance.
'I am the dreamer, the redhead, I search for hidden treasure: which fragment would yield the gold, which memory would haunt forever?' 'I am the investigator, I watch, I record, I collect evidence: little men who get rich quick, this wilful heritage, this aching land.' 'I am the fool, the hothead, distracted, temporarily unavailable: in love, out of love, searching for love.' Three women, stangers to each other, yet their lives seem inexplicably linked. Shadow Panic is a short experimental film about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.
'Sweetie' is impulsive, untidy, a fat adolescent who with her capricious demands, voracious sensuality, enormous appetite, terrifying rages, thirst for love and inexhaustible energy manages to turn her sister's well-ordered life upside down.
Teno looks at a widespread workplace illness, tenosynovitis - a crippling and often misunderstood disease. The nature of modern work practices can inadvertently lead to the illness, which mostly strikes women, since they predominately work in jobs requiring repetitious activity. This is especially evident among migrant workers. The program also considers the responsibility of both employers and employees.
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