I Substitute

Film duration:
13
Year:
1985
Countries:
United Kingdom
Original format:
16mm
Colour:
Colour

‘I Substitute’ is a personal, experimental film – one woman's attempt to express her experience of anorexia nervosa. 

The film was made because of my own experiences of anorexia, in relation to developing as an individual/woman in this society ... also because I feel that substituting an obsession with the body and with food for a deeper less tangible problem is a very widespread activity. The media in general seem to sensational­ise the subject without any understanding from the inside. 

Harriet McKern 

Description source: Circles catalogue (1987). Edited by Jenny Holland and Jane Harris. 

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