CHRONIC is an experimental narrative about a young woman who began mutilating herself as a girl to cope with a traumatic mid-western childhood. The lush optically-printed scenes take Gretchen’s point of view from her punk youth, a stay in a mental hospital, and her release into the big city. Scripted scenes are inter-spliced with documentary and found footage, illustrating the culture Gretchen lives in, her inner world and relationships from her birth to her final day.
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- Released
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- woman director
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Top Cast
Jennifer Reeves as Gretchen
Noelle Kalom as Sara
Barbara Lee as Marlo
Top Crew
Jennifer Reeves · Director, Cinematographer
James Hibler · Cinematographer
Ann T. Rossetti · Cinematographer
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