Blend of documentary and domestic melodrama featuring a series of sexually charged vignettes inspired by a piece of toilet graffiti. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
A psychological study of an estranged young woman dancer who experiences internal struggle over her dancing and her jealousy in relationship with other women. Uses a variety of avant garde film techniques to convey confusion and intensity of the woman's emotional conflict.
Traces is a carefully crafted and seductive examination of conflicted female identity in which Linkevitch presents stylized tensions and conflicts of the process of growing up. She appears briefly in the last scene.
"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle International Film Festival, 1978. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
