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Cosmetic Emergency

Cosmetic Emergency

Martha Colburn | Canada, Netherlands | 2005 | 9' |

| IFFR 2006

A collage of lyrical, original animations painted on glass, found footage and documentary fragments selected for the festival at Cannes. The maker investigates in an associative way the perversity and cruelty of the contemporary Western ideal of beauty.

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