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GENE SISKEL CENTER, CHICAGO
EMILY VEY DUKE
Threads of Belonging is a feature-length experimental video by Milwaukee-based filmmaker Jennifer Montgomery (director of Art for Teachers of Children, 1995). Montgomery brings together tropes from diverse genres, most notably narrative and essay forms. Threads of Belonging is based on the work of RD Laing, a British psychiatrist who founded a therapeutic community in which the hierarchical distinction between physicians and patients was essentially eliminated. Montgomery staged a sort of dramatic re-enactment of Laing's community in Milwaukee, asking fellow artists to live together as therapists and...