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Possibly in Michigan 1983
Publicado na Another Gaze.
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The fluid editing and juxtaposition of images in the tape evoke a very particular emotion, conveying a sense of the decay of the self through the transformation of the body. We see brief glimpses of “classical” and “standard” beauty merging into a mummified corpse. The film uses the same kind of macabre tone that we often see in sensationalist tabloids, stories that disregard violence against women and the social climate in which these acts take…
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Magdalena Viraga 1986
Publicado no Celluloid Sisters.
“Look at me now and here I am,” says a young woman, before being imprisoned and accused of murdering a man. Nina Menkes’ first feature, Magdalena Viraga (1986), follows the circular inner journey of Ida, a young prostitute portrayed by the director’s sister and later collaborator, Tinka Menkes. Relying heavily on repetition and discontinuity, the film is a descent into the filmmaker’s psyche and the unspoken guilt women endure, a symbolic understanding, by ways of inhabiting…
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