Corps-à-corps, image par image - 2
In this series of short films, woman directors take hold of animation and the diversity of its techniques to express themselves on their relationship to the body in a world of social and visual codes forged by the male gaze. Pioneer animators (Suzan Pitt, Michèle Cournoyer) and emerging filmmakers (Élodie Dermange, Kabuki Sawako) come together in this program addressing menstruation, motherhood, menopause, puberty, sexual violence, beauty dictates, but which also celebrates female desire, the eroticism of their daring fantasies, and the pleasures of anatomical curiosities. This program was built as an echo to the third issue of Blink Blank, Eros au féminin (Spring/Summer 2021).
Avertissement : Ce programme contient des scènes de nudité (images explicites) et traite de sujets sensibles (harcèlement et troubles alimentaires).
As Hélène Cixous said, we live in a time when millions of voles of an unknown species are undermining the conceptual basis of an age-old culture.
Two of Toulouse Lautrec’s models take a lively and boisterous break from posing.
A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixillation to scratch on film. An antidote to the vacuous sanitised view of menstruation promoted by advertising. "For many years I had wanted to make a film about my experience of menstruation as a woman, in which my unconscious became the author of the work and determined the form and process of making. (...) The imagery and course of the film was directed by the dreams I had around the time of menstruation: each month I ‘confined’ myself, to exclude external distractions, and focussed on creating images, filming and making artwork according to an ‘inner’ vision." (Kayla Parker)
Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.
Disgust and fascination follow each other in this explosion of saturated colors, half-animal half-human bodies, sexual organs and fluids. The japanese filmmaker takes no detour to expose a variety of sexual practices, while addressing eating disorders head-on - bulimia and anorexia.
The clitoris is the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.
A girl imagines she can empty the world.
Using a 16mm Bolex and Amiga computer, Hammer creates a witty and stunning film about how women view their sexuality versus the way male images of women and sex are perceived. The impact of technology on sexuality and emotion and the sensual self is explored through computer language juxtaposed with everyday colloquial language of sex. No No Nooky T.V. confronts the feminist controversy around sexuality with electronic language, pixels and interface. ***Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. ***
