Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden’s “Wanda” (1970)
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
FORTHCOMING Winter 2021
There is indeed a “miracle” in Wanda. This film has survived, despite decades of neglect, to emerge into the fuliginous light of an era that may just be ready to strain at grasping its harsh and brutal truths. Truths that reveal the imbrication of the psychic in the social and the experiential in political structures;[…]