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ship of a grand scale like Queen Mary is a spectacle. On the verge of
the times of the increased significance of family and relationships,
when the circumstances we cannot control are greater than those we can,
- time is devalued, and the artist gathers only its essence into the
spectacle of love, peace and projected life of a dream. Metaphorical
transformation of the ship into a symbol of life (where we are not the
participants but mere observers) shifts from the real to the surreal
when the artist declines to depict the vessel itself.
The Queen Mary (2) revived the name of a liner that pursued
the same passage a half-century earlier. During World War II, the Queen
Mary and its sister ship, Queen Elizabeth, became troopships, fast enough
to outpace enemy submarines. From March 1940 through September 1946
she carried almost eight hundred thousand of military personnel. She
delivered wounded returning to the USA and carried thirteen thousand
soldiers' brides and babies from Europe. She carried hundreds and thousands
of women and children inside of her body vindicating the fact that the
real Queen Mary, over 400 years ago, suffered a "phantom pregnancy"
- twice - arising from her great wish to have a child, but she gave
a birth only to a dream.
The film includes analog and documentary footage along
with computer animation
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