Three Short Episodes

Film duration:
10
Year:
1980
Countries:
United Kingdom
Languages:
English
Original format:
16mm
Colour:
Black and white

A look at female sexuality. The first “episode”, a black comedy, is simply called 'Penis Envy?' and finds a bride with a banana – eating it, spitting it out, cutting it up. Part two, 'Stop Pushing', reworks pornographic film footage into a frenzy. In part three, 'Towards a New Female Sexuality', the mood changes to one of intimacy as we see a woman's loving relationship with her own body.

Although the film is in three parts, there is one underlying theme, my personal dissatisfaction with the kind/type of sexual relationships men impose on women. The continuity of the film is found in my search for a new female sexuality.

– Rachel Finkelstein

Description source: Cinenova Catalogue (1994). Edited by Kate Norrish. Editorial committee: Elaine Burrows, Liane Harris, Helen de Witt

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