''Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405'' is a 2016 American

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directed by Frank Stiefel. Its subject is the artist Mindy Alper. The film earned a nomination for Best Short from the

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s, and won both audience and jury awards at both the Full Frame Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival. It won the

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for Best Documentary Short Subject at the

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Overview

''Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405'' is a film created from more than 20 hours of interviews between the film's subject, Mindy Alper, and director Frank Stiefel. Alper is a visual artist who channels her inner anxiety, depression, trauma and other demons into vivid drawings and

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sculptures. The title comes from Alper, who says that one of the only situations in which she feels at home besides art is sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

References

External links

Official Site
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