Brushfires (2004)

• 57%
• 2004
• Drama
• Wendy Jo Carlton
• Etta Worthington
• Maria Gigante
• Aprill Winney
• Ai Lene Chor
• Laura Lonigro
• Amber Mohammad
• Autumn Brooke Wilkins
• Candace Thompson
• F. David Roth

When a shy girl, secretly in love with her rocker-grrl housemate, meets an unbalanced heiress on the run, anything could (and does) happen in BRUSHFIRES, the latest production from Chicago-based film group Split Pillow. As the three women negotiate the dangerous relationships among them, the seven women directors weave a sensual tale of suspense. Drawing inspiration from the poem by Jessica Wilbur and the surrealist parlour game, The Exquisite Corpse, each director selected a word or phrase on which to base her segment, and the seven chapters of the film bear their individual marks. This impressive experiment in filmmaking emerges as a sensitive tale of young desire, loss, and love's confusion.