In Absentia

Year: 2000

Runtime: 20 mins

Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

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A woman sits alone at a table in a top‑floor room of an asylum, illuminated by occasional night spotlights that flash through the window. She sharpens pencils with such force the tips snap, discarding the fragments on the sill. Nearby an animated, straw‑ or clay‑like satanic figure looms. She completes a note, tears the page, folds it, places it in an envelope and slides it through a slot, perhaps addressing her husband with “Sweetheart, come.”

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