...Megan Moodie Unrest is the story of diagnosis and partial recovery: part detective story, part autobiography, and part documentation of an illness-based social movement. While conducting research on her own worsening symptoms, filmmaker Jennifer Brea learns that she is not as unusual as she has...

... testimonies regarding their own bodies. Moodie brings an anthropological rigor to her analysis of Jennifer Brea s recent documentary Unrest (2017) about a woman (Brea herself) living with myalgic encephomyalitis (ME), the illness formerly known as chronic fatigue syndrome. Moodie, who deals with chronic...

... both found professional occupation in the film industry and worked independently outside it, generating a strong, if uneven and idiosyncratic, tradition of artists films that runs from Borris Deutsch through Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari to, at present, Sharon Lockhart, Charlie White, and Jennifer...

... of California at Berkeley; her dissertation is entitled Flesh Cinema:The Corporeal Avant-Garde 1962-1972. © Ara Osterweil, 2003 Dead Ringers The Remake in Theory and Practice Edited by Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2002. $86.50 cloth; $29.95 paper. Why...