THE CASE OF THE MISSING CONSCIOUSNESS
Dir. John Dorr. 1980.
United States. 80 min.
In English.

"John Dorr's video s-f comedy stars Sheila Day and Strawn Bovee as rival women scientists in a brain research laboratory." - L.A. Weekly

“ …I saw Serge Daney laugh again, at dawn, on the first of the eight days that would comprise the forty-ninth year of his life, when I recounted to him the plot of one of four videos by John Dorr, THE CASE OF THE MISSING CONSCIOUSNESS. The protagonist of this piece, played by Dorr himself, is pulled back and forth between two rival workers in a laboratory—both of them women—who perform experiments on him that are sometimes terrifying, sometimes absolutely loony, and sometimes both.

The next day, as the ambulance came to take Serge to the hospital, where his life would end, he found himself able to laugh once again at the strange similarity of what was happening to him then and the story I had told him the day before…” - Jean-Claude Biette, Cahiers du Cinema