CB was inspired by a 1976 audio recording of a séance with Charlotte Brontë by re-nowned English medium, Leslie Filnt. The film discloses a 19th century woman whose brief life was both an artistic triumph and a relentless battle against loss and despair. The film delves into Brontë’s darkest moments – via her searing letters - and utilizes footage from a 1947 Hollywood production of Jane Eyre – co-staring a very young Elizabeth Taylor – to augment contemporary enactments of scenes inspired by the ambiguous séance recording – both conversation with the dead and univocal performance. The film begins with endings – the end of the séance recording and the dying Brontë’s final letter and ends with actress Erin Leland’s embodiment of the dead heroine and…

CB was commissioned by Marilu Knode of the Laumeier Museum, St. Louis, for their inaugural ‘Nightlight’ series. It was first shown there on June 11, 2010.