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Dying for the Other

Jan 1, 2012

0h 12m

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Overview

Dying for the Other is a video triptych, documenting the lives of mice used in breast cancer research and humans suffering from the same disease. In order to produce this video, da Costa documented scenes of her own life during the summer of 2011 and combined them with footage taken at a breast cancer research facility in New York City over the same time frame.

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Cast

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Beatriz da Costa

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No overview available.

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8.5

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5.0

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6.0

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7.0

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7.3

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6.6

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6.9

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6.0

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8.0

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