Barbie is self-portraiture as dark surrealism, with the artist, a Hollywood émigré, playing a human Barbie who, stark-naked at home, ritually cooks and eats a Barbie doll. With slow-motion photography offset by a hypnotic score, L’Hotsky achieves an eerie truthfulness that lends the film the incisiveness of an art performance documentation film.
Screens before Born in Flames.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1977
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- Digital
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