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    Sarah Moon 0 France Experimental b/w 16min French
    Based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Match Girl. Circus is a story about a circus disbanded when Nastassia, one of the circus performers, runs away mid-performance. She leaves to join her lover, abandoning the circus and her daughter Jane. Some of the performers carry on the charade of a circus whilst others walk away. Some of the animals simply die without the circus and little Jane runs away to the city to sell her matches. Alone, cold and ignored in a winter city, Jane strikes her matches one by one to conjure up fantastical images of her friends in the circus and visions of her dreams until all the matches are gone. She is found in the morning, dead in the snow.

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    Sarah Moon

    A fashion and advertising photographer, Sarah Moon has also directed over 150 advertising films and one feature. “I wish more than anything to be touched as I aim my camera [...] Sometimes, in a fraction of a second, like a spark, I see beauty or the unexpected. Everything happens very suddenly, and I'm transported, and I finally love what I see.”

    Sarah Moon

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