The heroine of Rebecca Miller's feature film debut, Angela, is a ten-year-old who is convinced that she and her younger sister, Ellie, can save their manic-depressive mother's soul if they just follow certain guidelines that God has given to Angela. She soon becomes obsessed with the idea of sin and, moving further away from reality she gradually enters the dangerous world of her own imagination.
"What's so tragic about kids in difficult circumstances is not only their suffering but the fact that they hold themselves responsible for it," says Miller, the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller. "The human imagination has a tremendous power to destroy as well as to uplift, and Angela's overactive imagination becomes something terrifying, dangerous and out of control."
Miller has always been interested in images formed from the subconscious and their effects. As a painter and sculptor, she was intrigued by dream imagery and ten years ago experimented with short 16mm films using dream imagery, and her first film, a short entitled Florence, followed a woman who is so empathetic to other people's pain that she actually acquires their symptoms.
MONIKA MAURER
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