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Deep Focus : Feminist Experimental Film/Video Section (Total 25 )
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Freedom
Ono Yoko | USA | 1970 | 1' 40" | 16mm | color |
In Freedom, Ono stands stripped down to a purple bra in front of the camera and uses the undergarment to stress the importance of freeing women from socially determined, restrictive roles through a liberation of the body. Soundtrack by John Lennon.
The 5 International Woman's Film Festival in Seoul | Deep Focus : Feminist Experimental Film/Video
It’s a She-Thing
Susanne Ofteringer | Germany | 2000 | 56' | Beta | color |
A documentary about radical female artists, then and now, whose work is concerned with gender, sex and the body. The artists featured here are Ono Yoko, a forerunner in feminist art, followed by British artists Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas, musician Kathleen Hanna, video artists S ..
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I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much
Pipilotti Rist | Switzerland | 1986 | 5' 45" | Beta | color |
Bare breasts are distorted by a fast-forwarding effect, which become hardly discernible and the same effects turns a dance into a wild spasm; singing is slurred, darkened and accelerated. Since Pipilotti Rist has entered the art scene with this film, her work has been viewed as b ..
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Pickelporno
Pipilotti Rist | Switzerland | 1992 | 12' 6" | Beta | color |
In Pickelporno, Pipilotti Rist attaches a tiny surveillance camera to a stick and pans it over a landscape of copulation, capturing close-ups of human figures and their natural flaws.
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At Sea
Penny Fowler-Smith | Australia | 1997 | 10' | Beta | color |
A baby boy dies and is buried at sea. Many years later his mother still grieves for him, painfully and bitterly. At Sea is a cinematic and poetic reflection on the delicate subject of loss.
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Here I Sit
Alyson Bell | Australia | 1996 | 8' | Beta | color |
Here I Sit is a visual and metaphorical interpretation of a poem by Australian poet Sandy Jeffs, which explores the complexities of the mind and the emotions of schizophrenia.
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Lip
Tracey Moffatt | Australia | 1999 | 10' | Beta | color |
It is Hollywood’s favorite stereotyped role for black women: The maid. Moffatt and Hillberg’s rough and entertaining video collage reveals the narrow margins Hollywood has allowed black actresses to shine in. But shine they do.
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Nice Coloured Girls
Tracey Moffatt | Australia | 1987 | 16' | 16mm | color |
This stylistically daring film audaciously explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women, juxtaposing the ‘first encounter’ between colonizers and native women with the attempts of modern urban Aboriginal women reversing their fortunes.
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Cheap Blonde
Janet Merewether | Australia | 1998 | 5' | 16mm | color |
A short study on the relationship between words and meaning comments on the subjects of gender, language, television, representation and culture. Looped video footage, filmed at a TV equipment trade show, provides the mesmerizing image of a woman sitting in front of a waterfall.
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Contemporary Case Studies
Janet Merewether | Australia | 2001 | 14' | Beta | color |
A black comedy featuring an experimental, graphically designed piece, Contemporary Case Studies, takes a bleak look at the confused nature of love and relationship in Sydney at the turn of the new century.
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Short before the Movie
Janet Merewether | Australia | 2003 | 5' 5" | 16mm | color |
Jonas Mekas wrote that 8mm home movies would be the folk art of the 20th century. Short before the Movies take us on a quick trip to the crossroads of cinema, where film as commodity, artform, home movie and cultural document meet.
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Tourette’s Tics
Janet Merewether | Australia | 1994 | 6' | 16mm | color |
What do Gilles de la Tourette’s disease, animal impersonators, Freud’s patients and the Ancient Greeks have in common? Tourette’s Tics is a short experimental mockcumentary, which questions the authority of the ‘expert in the white coat,’ and transforms hysteria into the hys ..
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Aerobicide
Sadie Benning | USA | 1998 | 4' | Beta | color |
캐슬린 한나가 결성한 밴드 줄리 루인의 뮤직비디오로 미국 음반산업의 냉소적인 마케터들에 대한 비판을 담고 있다. 베닝과 한나는 특히 여성을 대상으로 한 광고 캠페인인 ‘걸파워 마케팅’을 집중적으로 공격한다.
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Flat Is Beautiful
Sadie Benning | USA | 1998 | 50' | Beta | color |
Flat Is Beautiful is an experimental live-action cartoon using masks, animation, subtitles, drawings, and dramatic scenes to investigate the psychic life of an androgynous eleven-year-old girl. Growing up in a working class neighborhood with her single mother and gay roommate, Ta ..
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Girlpower
Sadie Benning | USA | 1992 | 15' | Beta | color |
Set to music by Bikini Kill, an all-girl band from Washington, Girlpower is a raucous vision of what it means to be a radical girl in the 90s. Benning relates her personal rebellion against school, family, and female stereotypes as a story of personal freedom, telling how she use ..
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The Judy Spots
Sadie Benning | USA | 1995 | 15' | Beta | color |
These five short videos introduce Judy, a paper mache puppet who ruminates on her position in society. Like Judy, of the famous Punch and Judy puppet duo, Benning’s Judy seems to experience the world from the outside, letting things happen to her rather than making things happen ..
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different space II
Lim Sun-hee | Korea | 2002 | 2' 40" | DV | color |
To express the theme, I took off the time and space meaning which is “Past and present” and “here and there.” And everything shows in the same frame. As the result, I can experience the different time and space which I never be. - Director’s statement
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Horizon Days
Rim Zi-young | Korea | 2002 | 5' 45" | DV | color |
The space in front of my doorstep is a space that connects the inside of my house with the outside world as well as a border between these two spaces. It symbolizes as well the conflict that arises in my mind, when my inner and outer identities meet. - Director’s statement
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Hot-foot, Red Body (Part of About Dream…)
Beck Ki-eun | Korea | 2001 | 3' | DV | color |
Composed of four parts including Hot-foot and Red Body, About Dream... is a series of experimental films that visualize the images of dreams. Hot-foot revives one of the filmmaker’s dreams wherein she runs at an extreme speed on a hot road, while Red Body visualizes the repetiti ..
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Intolerance
Song Mi-na | Korea | 2002 | 19' 28" | 16mm | color |
In the 1st episode, Mermaid, a female customer and a male vendor argue about a mermaid fish that appears in the village market. In Flower, a woman locked up in a restricted area conceives a flower, and a monster appears to get a hold of the flower. In Wooden Doll, there’s a youn ..
 
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