A Cold Draft
Joanna Davis
Film duration:
30
Year:
1989
Distribution status:
Available
Countries:
United Kingdom
Languages:
English
Original format:
16mm film
Available formats:
16mm print, SD digital file, VHS
Colour:
Black and white
Recently digitized
Shows surveillance of a woman by overseers who have judged her to be mad... cuts through the established Culture's convenient orders and labels with a razor.
– Sandra Lahire
‘A Cold Draft’ disrupts order and convention both formally – in relation to film – and psychologically through the voice of women refusing to conform. Over superimposed images, live action and a collage of sounds, the words of an unseen, pathologised woman dreamily speaks of the acceptance of repression and the danger of resistance.
Description compiled in 2026 by Jess Higgins, using Cinenova catalogue (1994) edited by Kate Norrish, and Cinenova catalogue (circa 1990) compiled and edited by Becky Faith.
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