Crafted as though from everyday observation and fantastic dream, About Endlessness marries the magical and mercurial, the simple and surreal.
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Eileen G'Sell is a writer and educator based in St. Louis, where she lives most of the year with a scrappy wire-haired terrier. Her poetry, interviews, and criticism can be found at eileengsell.com.
"You know how, in therapy, you realize something was the cause of something else? This film was like natural therapy for me. I started thinking, 'What else do I remember about the one-child policy, and how did it affect me?'"
"It’s a super testosteroney movie—a bunch of men, a lot of violence, the cops are dudes, the guys in the neighborhoods are dudes. But no one was looking at this with empathy, like, “What does it mean to be a human being living in this space?” To me that was a very female gaze, though the movie wasn’t about women."
"The fact is that these final years of Nico’s life were arguably the best years because she was much more in control, she was happy, and she had her band."
