| Twist of Fate
(2009 • Running Time: 8:40)
Soundtrack: Ken Field
Music: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Encanti
This 35mm experimental animated film explores
the transformative experience of being diagnosed with a life-threatening
illness. This expressionistic piece captures impressions of such
an experience: upheaval, uncertainty, a sense of physical intrusion,
and loss of control. Exploring this emotional and physical landscape,
the film visualizes an internal world inside the body, imagined
on a cellular level.
“Aqua is an enormously gifted artist and animator, and her compositions constantly thrill, with their sweeping, expanding, and swirling sense of musicality, drama, and composition. Her visual inventiveness is coupled with an emotional intelligence and sensitivity”
— David Finkelstein, filmthreat.com
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“Modern illness is a combination of
the scientific, the mysterious, and the ineffable—a startling
subject for Aqua, one of the animation world's most playful, rhythmic
talents.”
— Telluride Film Festival
“A masterpiece. I was deeply touched.”
— Branka Bogdanov, Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston
“With experimental animation and collage techniques, Karen Aqua presents a beautiful and astonishing account of her experience with cancer. û"Twist of Fate" is less a literal representation of events than an expressionistic rendering of Aqua's diagnosis, treatment and recovery.”
— Medical Film Symposium
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| Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 2010: ûDirector's Choice Award |
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| James River Film Festival, Virginia, 2010: û2nd Prize and People's Choice Award |
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| Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2010: ûEileen Maitland Award |
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| Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema, Spain, 2010: ûSpecial Mention |
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| USA Film Festival, Dallas, Texas, 2010: ûFinalist |
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| Athens Film & Video Festival, Ohio, 2010: ûHonorable Mention |
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| Telluride Film Festival, 2009 |
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| Starz Denver Film Festival, 2009 |
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| Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2009 |
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| Anima '09 International Animation Festival, Argentina |
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| Annecy International Animation Festival, France, 2010 |
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| Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, 2010 |
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| Atlanta Film Festival, 2010 |
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| Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois, 2010 |
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| Maryland Film Festival, 2010 |
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| L'Étrange Festival, Paris, 2010 |
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| Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation, Germany, 2010 |
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| Medical Film Symposium, Philadelphia, 2010 |
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| Kos Health Film Festival, Greece, 2010 |
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| Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden, 2010 |
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| Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema (Science Film Festival), Galicia, Spain, 2010 |
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| Marblehead Festival of Arts Film Festival, Massachusetts, 2011, 2012 |
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| SCINEMA Festival of Science Films, Australia, 2011 |
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| Experiments in Cinema, Albuequerque, NM. 2011 |
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| Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, 2009 |
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| M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2009 |
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| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, 2009 |
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| Medical Film Symposium, Philadelphia, 2010 |
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| Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
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