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Author Trevor Mowchun

Trevor Mowchun

Trevor Mowchun is currently working on a Masters in Film Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. Forthcoming is a short book on the poetics of human finitude called The Folds of Wakefulness.

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Dreaming in Words: Gertrud

Trevor Mowchun
May 2008
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Gertrud (1964 Denmark 115 mins) Prod Co: Palladium Film Prod: Jørgen Nielson Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer Scr: Carl Theodor Dreyer, based on the play by Hjalmar Söderberg Phot: Henning Bendtsen Ed: Edith Sch...

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