Mauve Desert
1997, colour, English
TAPECODE 9999.161
Mauve Desert is a CD-ROM translation of Nicole Brossard's experimental novel "Le Désert mauve". Nicole Brossard is a celebrated Quebecoise author.
Mélanie is a fifteen year-old of the memory.
She steals her mother's Meteor every chance she gets and drives away from her mother's lover Lorna and toward the dawn.
Maude Laures is the middle aged academic who stumbles upon Mélanie's life in a second-hand bookshop and translates her into another tongue.
Adriene Jenik is the road-running video artist who drives Mauve Desert from Montréal to the Southwest, from print to pixel, from night to day, and from one generation of women to another.
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