Illusions of Control
- Year
- 2019
- Description
- Examines the lives of five women around the world as they face uncomfortable futures: cultural theorist Lauren Berlant, who has terminal cancer in Chicago; Silvia Ortiz, who is searching for her daughter in Mexico; Kaori Suzuki, who leads a citizen-scientist group of mothers in monitoring radiation in Fukushima, Japan; Stacey Sundberg, who wields her indigenous knowledge in remediation of a gold mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories; and Xue Lan Yang, who battles an encroaching desert in China.
- Director
- Walsh, Shannon
- Writer
- Walsh, Shannon
- Producer
- Schmidt, Andréa; Walsh, Shannon
- Cinematographer
- Alvarez-Mesa, Pablo
- Editor
- Snider, Hart
- Production Team
- What Escapes Production, Last Songbird Productions, and Cinema Politica
- Genre
- Documentary
- Language
- Chinese, English, Japanese, and Spanish with English subtitles
- Media Format
- 1 streaming video (87 min.)
- Type
- Color
- Updated
- 02-20-2024
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