Movie

80000 Thoughts (2014)

• November 1, 2014
• 1h 20m

“- a film about identity and searching for meaning in life”

Overview

80,000 Thoughts is a poetic autobiographical and fictional film about testing oneself and one's possibilities—sexually, gender-wise, and bodily—conveyed through dance, music, poetry, and images. It is also a personal story about the narrator's traumas and memories, her love affair and one-time crush, God, drugs, missing her mother, and violence and abuse. Director Michele Mwikali Lauritsen deftly employs crackling prose to position her film in the impossible—and refreshing—position between the gallery-smart contemporary art of the time and a more accessible and popular format.

Director

Michele Mwikali Lauritsen

Writers

Michele Mwikali Lauritsen

Starring

Ayub Ali Abdulkadir, Alejandro Alvarez, Marjorie Gaite Uy Barreta