Melanie, a fifty-something Torontonian learns that she is terminally ill. This news leaves her considering her life, as well as the body that houses it. She leaves her husband, Frank in Toronto and goes on a bender and winds up in Los Angeles where she meets a photographer, Jonathan and becomes his muse. The photographer inspires her to celebrate her body - folds, wrinkles, illness, and all. She sits for a series of nudes for his tintype process. The antiquated mode of plate-... (Full plot summary below)
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Melanie, a fifty-something Torontonian learns that she is terminally ill. This news leaves her considering her life, as well as the body that houses it. She leaves her husband, Frank in Toronto and goes on a bender and winds up in Los Angeles where she meets a photographer, Jonathan and becomes his muse. The photographer inspires her to celebrate her body - folds, wrinkles, illness, and all. She sits for a series of nudes for his tintype process. The antiquated mode of plate-based photography has a stirring sense of permanence while highlighting the body's fragility.
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