GOD KNOWS WHERE I AM (Jedd Wider, Todd Wider). 97 minutes. Opens Friday (April 28). See listing. Rating: NNNN
In the spring of 2008, the body of Linda Bishop was discovered in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse. God Knows Where I Am is an artful look at her troubled life and lonely death.
Through interviews with her family and friends, Todd and Jedd Widers – longtime documentary producers (Taxi To The Dark Side, Client 9) making their directorial debut – recount Bishop’s life and her deterioration after a diagnosis of severe bipolar psychosis that sent her plummeting into America’s badly overtaxed health-care system.
The Widers don’t sensationalize any of this. God Knows Where I Am is a gentle, elegiac work with great compassion for its subject. Indeed, it’s Bishop’s own voice that comes through most powerfully, represented in readings from her journal performed by actor Lori Singer.