The Father is Nothing
Film duration:
10
Year:
1991
Distribution status:
Available
Countries:
Australia
Original format:
16mm
Available formats:
SD digital file
Colour:
Black and white
This film uses a "scene" between a woman and a female-to-male transsexual to mobilise Gilles Deleuze's work on masochism as explored in his book ‘Coldness and Cruelty’.
Critical of all manifestations of fascism, the film's visuals and sound set up a tension between two libidinal economies – that of fascism (the super father) where the father is everything, and the world of the masochist, where the mother is everything and the father is nothing.
– Leone Knight
Description source: Cinenova Catalogue (1994). Edited by Kate Norrish. Editorial committee: Elaine Burrows, Liane Harris, Helen de Witt
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