Publication Date

4-26-2002

Abstract

My film, See Jill Paint, is an exploration of the possibilities for non-oppressive, nonviolent objectification. I started with a strong desire to focus a short movie around the application of colorful paint to nipples and the surrounding areas; as I progressed towards that goal, I questioned how the project might correspond or conflict with the radical gender politics that I value. In sexist objectification, people (mostly women) are perceived as being only visual objects at the expense of their subjectivity. I think it is possible to draw attention to bodies as objects and simultaneously affirm the complexity of the embodied subject. The intent of my film project was to explore some possibilities for positive objectification. I achieved this by disrupting the conventions of sexist objectification and replacing them with a playful context.

Disciplines

Theatre and Performance Studies

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