Movies: Western Front Video

  • 1988
    Measures of Distance

    Measures of Distance (1988)

    Measures of Distance

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    In this video, the artist tries to overcome the effects of distance, and reflects on geography represented in exile due to war, and on the psychological distance represented in each one’s approach to her womanhood. The video beautifully weaves person...

    Measures of Distance
  • 1984
    Changing Parts

    Changing Parts (1984)

    Changing Parts

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    It operates through the juxtaposition of two strands of ambiguously contrasting image and sound. She has said: 'I want to remind the audience that there are different realities that people have to live through … Changing Parts … is about such differe...

    Changing Parts
  • 1983
    So Much I Want to Say

    So Much I Want to Say (1983)

    So Much I Want to Say

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    The video So Much I Want to Say consists of a series of still images, changing every eight seconds, which show the artist's face in close-up with a pair of male hands gagging her mouth and preventing her from speaking. Meanwhile her voice on the soun...

    So Much I Want to Say
  • 1993
    Big Fat Slenderella

    Big Fat Slenderella (1993)

    Big Fat Slenderella

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    Big Fat Slenderella looks at dieting from the fat person's point of view. In this work, excerpts from documentary interviews with fat people are juxtaposed with fat animals in captivity by the inventive use of wipe effects. Commercials for products l...

    Big Fat Slenderella