Awake and Sing
Lee Anne Schmitt
2003
United States
42’
On Cry Love, Schmitt wrote: “Everything in the world seems to be in danger, even the air, even the light. (…) In some days of these months, the repetition has been a form of meditation; in others, a premonition of what has already been lost”. The Farnsworth Scores, filmed at Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House with musician and artist Rob Mazurek, is a meditation on the relationship between humans, nature and architecture. Awake and Sing, based on the work of playwright Clifford Odets (1906-1963), reflects on acting and realism against the backdrop of the contemporary Los Angeles landscape.