Leaving Bristol is a documentary film that explores the loss of the filmmaker's family farm in Bristol, Tennessee, and the failure of her grandmother's (Trula Seneker) aging mind.   The film documents Trula's move away from the farm and the last days of her life, while simultaneously constructing a history of the 200 year old farm from things that are left behind.   Trula's fragmented memory becomes the model for the film's telling of the history of a place.   A story of the farm is woven-   from things found in the barns, photographs, stories overheard- all accompanied by the passing of the seasons and the planting of the annual tobacco crop.

documentary

Leaving Bristol
1999

produced, directed, edited by L. Kissel
cinematography: L. Kissel

16mm film
32:00

screenings ::

Southern Lens, SCETV, 01.20.2005

SCINDY Festival, Piccolo Spoleto, 2001

McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, 2001

James River Festival of the Moving Image 2000
First Place Award

Women Direct 2000

Women in the Director's Chair 2000

Colossal Film Crawl 1999
Best of Show