Interior Scroll
Schneemann and seven nude women perform the ritualized action of reading a text, as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina. The camera moves from the group action of the naked performers to close-ups of the unraveling text. Schneemann, a central figure in the body art movement, first performed this action solo in 1975.
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1995
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- Digital
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