Women Work for Barbie

Women Work for Barbie
Women work in factories to make and to buy objects that shape our children's image of self.

Children are groomed to become objects.

Children are seduced by the objects and aspire to become a pretty doll.

Women Work for Barbie

Film by Wyllie O Hagan
http://www.wyllieohagan.com

Music - with permission

"Children of the Soul Mountain"
Composer Chan Wai Fat -
Singer - Po Sun Yi

Press Release: May 15th 2007
"Women work for Barbie"

"Women work for Barbie" is a two minute film short by London based artists Wyllie O Hagan. Wyllie O Hagan reflect on the irony of how global economics affect women.

The video makes a simple statement about women who work in Barbie factories to make and to buy objects that shape children's image of self.

Writer Sophie Artemis Pitt comments,
"We live in a society which consumes images and objectifies and judges each other; which avidly consumes other people's lives, their weight gains and losses, their hairstyle through magazines and 'reality' television. This video challenges the objectification of the body: models with their painted lips and their dismorphic bodies and yet is visually seductive, using the language of its polemic."

Bio
Visual artists Wyllie O Hagan live and work in London, England. They make digital film artworks, print-making, land art and installation.

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[singercity40]

all our lives we walk a labyrinth with invisible walls of taboo and expectation me thinks.

Ed

[wyllieohagan]

me thinks you might be right.

[PBaugess]

Love this. i have a 2 year old little girl.  everyone has been warned that anything prinsess or barbie is going to goodwill. she dose not need to grow up thinking a 22in waist and DD cup sizes is whats inportant.

[wyllieohagan]

Good plan you have there for your daughter.

We wish you all the best.

[RespectYourselfLA11]

The phrase "Mass Media brings Mass Deception" is true, and we must be empowered to fight. Wonderful clip. Favored.

[wyllieohagan]

Thanks for your comment and for the work you do.

[DeathWithoutIPod]

I completly respect your position but I have to disagree. Barbie isn't encouraging to be a pretty doll. Barbie may be pretty but she is also a Harvard Graduate, a Doctor, lawyer, writer, teacher, and aerospace engineer. I think thats pretty impressive. What has ken done? NOTHING. Barbie taught me as a young girl that I can be whoever I want to be and I don't need a man to achieve that. I think you should be attacking Brat dolls, not Barbie dolls.

[ilovedisney84]

I dont think its the doll itself. I feel like you have to see the bigger picture here. while children are impressionable you have to factor in life situations, adults that they see as everyday role models etc. I grew up playing with Barbie and i loved her.I actually remember LOVING to pretend she was lost in Jurassic park in our back yard with my brother's dino's LOL. Listen i get the message and i respect you're work but... really i feel like every human being is different and life happens :D

[HDIRNBERGER]

@PBaugess if barbie was a real girl, she would be 7 feet 2 inches and 101 pounds

[MaireMc]

The message you give is clear and very powerful. Thank you for continuing to give voice to the concerns of many women. Máire xx

[denisewyllie]

I am gratified that you understand and agree with this video MaireMc because Clare and I are amazed how few people do.

Some people cannot read the images or acknowledge their relevance.

x

[MaireMc]

Powerful and effective work sisters xx

[laellagos]

I think the main reason for girls to think that way is because of their direct environment. It is the people around them who expect them to be like a doll. I'm glad your little girl does not have to meet those expectations, but there are still a lot of girls who do. See, for example, those Miss Junior contests. Now THAT really makes me sick.

[KookyKiwi83]

to slow for my liking but who doesnt want to be baribe? baribie giirl! lolz