Sheila McLaughlin

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Sheila McLaughlin

Biography

Sheila McLaughlin (born 1950) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and photographer. She wrote and directed the controversial film, She Must Be Seeing Things (1987). Her debut feature film, Committed (1984), which she co-directed with writer Lynne Tillman, is an experimental narrative of the life of Frances Farmer, shot on a low budget of $45,000. McLaughlin's films have been described as presenting "a grasp of a developing new feminist language of cinema."


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Die Wiese der Sachen Die Wiese der Sachen (1988) Character: N/A
Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted car dealer.
Normalsatz Normalsatz (1982) Character: N/A
An experimental German film
How to Fly How to Fly (1981) Character: N/A
With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc. – had prepared audiences for this new type of structure. — Charles Ruas
Splits Splits (1978) Character: N/A
Based on “Emma Zunz,” a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the film moves through the internal voices of Emma’s character, whose evolution between crime, revenge and justice assumes—read from the context of the social struggles of the 60s and 70s—a decidedly political character.
Committed Committed (1984) Character: Frances Farmer
Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.
Verführung: Die grausame Frau Verführung: Die grausame Frau (1986) Character: Justine
Wanda, a dominatrix who runs an S&M gallery on the Hamburg waterfront, must choose between her lesbian lover and an American trainee.
The Big Blue The Big Blue (1988) Character: Myrna
Not to be confused with Luc Besson's film of the same title from the same year. Documentarian Andrew Horn's second narrative feature.
Born in Flames Born in Flames (1983) Character: Other leader
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.



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