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"The video is a reworking of 8 mm home movie footage from the 1940's in which
my father, my brother and I are framed in a family narrative. As we play our roles, written into the language of our bodies, can be seen the cultural constructs of patriarchy and male privilege, as well as the female predicamentof entrapment between enticement and rejection. The episode is retold three times in different treatments, using devices of slow motion, repetition, stilling, and close-up. With each successive viewing, more and more detail emerges, focusing on my, (the girl's), reactions. While I have no conscious memory of the event and what I experiencedemotionally at the time, it exists now in a de- and re-constructed reality that speaks to notions of autobiographical narrative and memory, the way technology mediates experience, and how we may re-know and re-present the forces that formed us." Freda Guttman |
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FILM MUET/SILENT MOVIE Freda Guttman Experimental, Quebec, 1994, 9 min 27 s, b & w |
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