A stream-of-consciousness video that examines gender stereotyping in popular culture, concluding with a post-modern version of the Pandora myth. Imagery includes found footage, performance, interviews with young girls, documentary, animation, images from advertising and television. Brew’s first job was making educational film strips. With this film, she liberated herself.
Also in this combined programme
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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 -
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
- 1990
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
