UNDERGRADUATE FILM WORK

SHE:character study

running time: 04;25

2004

Just as the title describes, this piece is a character study for a character I intend to use in future work (see SHE:contaminated). Exploring the fragmentation of women in my work is a central theme, so I am in the process of designing a trinity that will inform the fragmentation of the female identity. This woman is most likely a reflection of what in Freudian terms would be the super-ego or the father; however is also inspired by the third sister of Adrienne Rich's poem Women.

WOMEN

by Adrienne Rich

My three sisters are sitting
on rocks of black obsidian.
For the first time, in this light, I can see who they are.

My first sister is sewing her costume for the procession.
She is going as the Transparent lady
and all her nerves will be visible.

My second sister is also sewing,
at the seam over her heart which has never healed entirely,
At last, she hopes, this tightness in her chest will ease.
 
My third sister is gazing
at a dark-red crust spreading westward far out on the sea.
Her stockings are torn but she is beautiful.
 
1968

kinetic/potential

running time: 05;00

2004

SHE:cyborg (relic)

running time: 03;00

2003