Semiotics of the Kitchen
Film duration:
8
Year:
1975
Countries:
United States of America
Original format:
Umatic Video
Available formats:
SD digital file
Colour:
Black and white
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‘Semiotics of the Kitchen’ invents an “alphabet” of kitchen appliances and these recognisable “signs” of domestic industry become instruments of mad music or interpersonal violence – a vehicle for the rage and frustration of the unsmiling antithesis of a perfect bourgeois housewife, as seen on TV.
The performer's body eventually becomes the medium of the alphabetic sign redefined, the signs themselves epitomising her isolated domestic production.
Description Source: Cinenova Catalogue (1994). Edited by Kate Norrish. Editorial committee: Elaine Burrows, Liane Harris, Helen de Witt
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