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Hurry, hurry step this way, the strangest sights on the island!
Knife throwers, burlesque dancers, lady boxers, trapeze performers, beauty queens, and female contortionists. Remixing public domain archival footage of Coney Island and early vaudeville performers from the Prelinger and American Memory Archives, freak girls is a tribute, both playful and haunting, to some of the women who pioneered the art of the female spectacle. |
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A-078
FREAK GIRLS Tamara Vukov (aka pomgrenade) Essay, Canada, 2005, 4 min 4 s, B & W Sparse English text |
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