Fierce Detail
‘Fierce Detail' seeks the erotic in our everyday lives. The fierce detail of the face, language and objects are sites of emotion, passion, spirituality and humour.
Shot on handheld Super 8, and cut quickly and fluidly, the film allows for the casuality of gazing at a woman's face in extreme close-up, as she both reflects and interacts with the audience/camera. We enter her world to hear a dislocated and poetic story of desire.
Referencing Jean Paul Belmondo's brush of the lips in 'A bout de Souffle' (Jean Luc Godard, 1959), 'Fierce Detail' plays with the style of lesbian chic, the connection to images of male movie stars and their sexiness, and their relevance to lesbian self-imaging.
Simultaneously there is the glass of milk with hair being pulled out. In Jewish philosophy taking a hair out of milk signifies an easy death, whilst in Freudian terms there is the notion of the “little death” as the (usually understood as male) orgasm. This alongside the more obvious viscerality of body fluids and hair as “sexy”, add another plane to the sexuality of the film.
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