Creative Capital

Jeanne Finley, John Muse Loss Prevention

Discipline
Film/Video
Medium
Documentary
Subject

Language

Memory

Narrative
State
California
Year
2000
Status
Completed

Description

Loss Prevention combines documentary and fictional elements to tell the story of Irene, who was arrested at the age of 79 for stealing a bottle of aspirin from a Miami Wal-Mart and sentenced to ten weeks of Senior Citizen Shoplifting Prevention School. Narrated through the voice of her daughter, this film explores the alienation of aging and the evolving relationship between a daughter and an elderly mother. The visual material combines the lush Florida landscape with intimate super-8 footage to create a subtle meditation on the conflicts of parent and child, boredom and pleasure, accident and intention, authority and subterfuge.

Jeanne Finley

Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse have worked collaboratively on numerous experimental documentaries and multi-channel video installations since 1988. Thes…
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John Muse

Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse have worked collaboratively on numerous experimental documentaries and multi-channel video installations since 1988. Thes…
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Project Updates

2010: Loss Prevention screens at Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of Creative Capital film festival
2000: Loss Prevention is screened at Walter Reade Theater in New York
2001: Loss Prevention is screened at the Dallas Film Festival
2001: Loss Prevention is screened at the Athens Film Festival in Athens OH
2003: Loss Prevention is screened at Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco