Two Faces

Hermine Freed | USA | 1972 | 7' |

| IFFR 2015

In response to the feminist discourse of the 1970s about women being alienated from themselves in a male-dominated society, Hermine Freed tries to contact her self-image and reclaim her body. In split screen we see how Freed caresses and kisses her mirror image.

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