Entirely produced, scripted, directed and edited by Potter herself, this rewriting of Puccini’s opera La Bohème – with musical quotes from Psycho – provides the female spectator with a long-awaited recognition of her version of the story. Potter uses the materiality of film to deconstruct the relationship between theory and image.
Also in this combined programme
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Menses
Women act out their own dramas in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. A wry comedy on the ironic aspects of menstruation. -
Black Box
An innocent youth is abducted and tortured without any culpability. This seminal No Wave film is a terrifying allegory of societal repression. -
Interior Scroll
In a vast underground cave, Schneemann and seven nude women read a text as each woman slowly extracts a scroll from her vagina. -
Sewing Circle
Performance artist Kembra Pfahler invited a camera to witness one of her most radical and angry gestures: sewing her vagina shut. -
Don’t Light My Fire (Otoboke Beaver Music Video)
Japanese punk rock group Otoboke Beaver is a female quartet from Japan. This video illustrates a song that stems from their recent album, Itekoma Hits
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 1979
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 34'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
