These films deal with notions of objectification, submission and enforced roles through the contextual lens of beauty, domesticity and sexuality.
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Bread
Bread hones in on the symbolic role of food, specifically in the way that it highlights gendered imbalances of power in the entertainment industry. -
Belladonna
A number of somber talking heads frankly describe their most personal and perverse attitudes on sex, violence and other family matters. -
Semiotics of the Kitchen
A woman stands in a kitchen surrounded by gadgets, picking up each of them and naming them alphabetically with precise, controlled, angry movements. -
Saute ma ville
A young Chantal Akerman goes berserk in her kitchen and, while singing, trashes it. A burlesque pamphlet against household chores with May 68 underton -
Mixed Messages
An experimental video collage that examines gender-stereotyping in popular culture, concluding with a post-modern version of the Pandora myth. -
Play Boy
An experimental film spliced together from the detritus of early 1980s Times Square porn and pawn shops. Gritty, sensorial and hypnotic.