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Episode 1: The Haunting

Death of an Artist

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Anna Mendieta's Moffat Building Piece

The photos and film the Mendieta sisters took that day would ultimately become a work of art called MFA building piece. It still exists only in these little 35 millimeter slides, which you have to get very close to with a loop. Anna's interest in blood was an only meant to shock. She was keenly aware of violence and injustice. When she made the Moffat building piece, she was investigating her own community's reaction to a brutal crime.

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