Chronic (1997)

CHRONIC is an experimental narrative about a young woman who began mutilating herself as a girl to cope with a traumatic midwestern childhood The lush opticallyprinted scenes take Gretchens point of view from her punk youth a stay in a mental hospital and her release into the big city Scripted scenes are interspliced with documentary and found footage illustrating the culture Gretchen lives in her inner world and relationships from her birth to her final day