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The winner of numerous festival prizes, this early work by Lynne Sachs is a provocative film essay on women's perspectives on their bodies in a "man's world." It touches on everything from the female form's depiction in Renaissance art to the school of 19th century "scientific" thought equating "abnormal" physiognomy with criminality. This adventurous collage also features the filmmaker's own diaristic recollections (notably of being fitted for a diaphragm by a cold, intimidating doctor), poetical staged sequences, other women's audio testimonies, an old classroom instructional reel about menstruation, prose by Gertrude Stein and feminine "ideals" like the undulating young woman performing in fish-tail costumes at Florida's kitschy Weeki-Wachee Springs "Underwater Mermaid Theater." - Dennis Harvey
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- calendar_month Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Sarah Beams
Amelia Dunne
Barbara Frank
Stacey Gilbertson
Tashwanna Harrell
Amelia Large
LaDonna McKinney
Dana Sachs
Lynne Sachs
Leslie Alperin
Gigi DeRoux
Irish Higgens
Susan Meyers
Julie Terwilliger
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Lynne Sachs
Director
Thomas W. Laqueur
Research Assistant
John Baker
Sound Design Assistant
Craig Baldwin
Research Assistant
David Kuchta
Research Assistant
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