From A to Z, Rosler ‘shows and tells’ the ingredients of the housewife’s day, giving us a tour that names and mimics the ordinary with precise, controlled, angry movements. Universally derided by men, this 1975 protest video empowered so many women that meanwhile hundreds of tributes and variations are in circulation.
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. -
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
- 1975
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
