Ansuya Blom

A young man has been accused of theft. We see him behind barbed wire, falling in slow motion onto the grass.

A young man has been accused of theft. We see him behind barbed wire, falling in slow motion onto the grass. Ansuya Blom alternates this image and others , such as a group of pelicans screeching around a fishing boat, with 8 mm recordings of a first communion procession from her archive. Meanwhile we hear a woman’s voice reading from the 1982 book Disorderly Families by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault, a collection of letters from the French Bastille archives. Many of the letters are pleas to the court to lock up a spouse or child to prevent the entire family falling apart. In these ways, Misty Man offers food for thought about mental as well as physical confinement, while never making a clear-cut statement on the subject. Misty Man offers food for thought about mental as well as physical confinement, while never making a clear-cut statement on the subject.