Head Cleaner

Hand-drawn and digital animation, analog video effects, re-photography and video feedback transform images issuing from an apparently malfunctioning machine. Materials and objects, in varying physical or mediated transfigurations, pervade each scene, as relics from one moment in a transformation from girlhood to womanhood. Tongue-in-cheek commentary on entertainment technology’s fraught relationship to individual agency and identity, and its role in the standardization of expression and behaviour, underlies a loosely suggested coming-of-age narrative.

Film Maker
Pelstring, Emily
Year
2015
Country
Canada
Length
7
Language
No dialogue
Category
art & artists, body, history, media studies, Mental Health, science/medicine, Sound Art + Music, Work by Women
Genre
Animation, experimental