Chronic

CHRONIC is an experimental narrative about a young woman who began mutilating herself as a girl to cope with a traumatic mid-western childhood. The lush optically-printed scenes take Gretchen’s point of view from her punk youth, a stay in a mental hospital, and her release into the big city. Scripted scenes are inter-spliced with documentary and found footage, illustrating the culture Gretchen lives in, her inner world and relationships from her birth to her final day.

  • Released: 1997-03-13
  • Runtime: 38 minutes
  • Genre: Drama
  • Stars: Barbara Lee, Jennifer Reeves
  • Director: Jennifer Reeves