Elena [DVD video]

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Title:

Elena [DVD video]

Added Author:

Costa, Petra, 1983- filmmaker, film director, film producer, screenwriter, narrator.

Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

[Las Vegas, Nevada] : Syndicado Digital Distribution, [2014?]

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Abstract:

Filmmaker Petra Costa presents a medidation on her sister Elena Andrada, who moved to New York from Brazil when Costa was seven to become an actress, where she fell into a state of depression and ended her own life, a mystery that Costa reconstructs with home movies, newspaper clippings, diary entries, and letters.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.

Special features: Disc 2. An ocean of memories, 120 minutes of extra footage exploring Elena's artistic past and the process of making the movie.

Performers:

Narrator, Petra Costa.

Contents:

Extra features: Turn to water -- Ophelias -- Sea of memories -- A Japanese diary -- Underground -- A passage through the USA -- Casting test -- Boi voador -- The last trip -- Impermanence -- Father, colors and ashes -- Dancing with herself -- Memory of creation.

Technical Details:

DVD, 5.1.

Personal Subject:

Andrade, Elena.

Costa, Petra, 1983-

Subject Term:

Suicide -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.

Suicidal behavior -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.

Suicidal behavior -- Brazil -- Case studies.

Suicide victims -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

Suicide victims -- Brazil -- Biography.

Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Brazil -- Case studies.