Bread is a silent-era title discovered buried under the frozen ground in Dawson City, Canada in 1978. One hundred years before #MeToo, Ida May Park, who began her career as a stage actress, wrote and directed this socially-conscious drama about a powerful man abusing his status by sexually assaulting, harassing and exploiting women on the ‘casting couch’.
Also in this combined programme
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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.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1918
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
