Gritty, sensorial and hypnotic: a figurative and psychedelic experimentation with film language and voyeurism, the film offers a unique take on transgressive cinema. Play Boy combines pre-existing images to create moral transgression. The recycled images are textured and worn, and in its peepshow-like looped format, looking feels both seedy and pleasurable.
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 -
Mixed Messages
An experimental video collage that examines gender-stereotyping in popular culture, concluding with a post-modern version of the Pandora myth.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1984
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
