To Be Silent Is The Most Painful Part

Film duration:
6
Year:
1985
Distribution status:
Available
Countries:
United Kingdom
Original format:
16mm film
Available formats:
16mm, Umatic Video, SD digital file
Colour:
Colour

Using a metaphor of peeling skin, images from the filmmaker's family history are combined with black and white images of famour paintings. A woman is seen being physically manipulated into each of the archetypal representations failing upon her skin.

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