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A performance film consisting of a string of five slow motion portraits of a young woman. Each portrait varies in length and gesture as her myriad expressions invite our gaze. With each action performed in dead silence, stretched to the limits of voyeuristic levels of comfort, the simple act of looking is made fragile. A curious exchange is established between spectator, creator, and subject through a careful appropriation and reframing of social media conventions and advertising iconography transposed into a cinematic space—pointing to a cycle of regressive media consumption.

Film Maker
Samarasinghe, Rajee
Year
2019
Country
Sri Lanka, China, United States
Length
3
Language
English
Category
Abstraction, art & artists, body, Culture, Ethnography, Feminism, Gender, media studies, Performance, Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Work about Women
Genre
documentary, experimental, Installation, short