THE GAZE

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Cinema throughout history from the early 1950s, has been dominated by what is called the "the male gaze", coined first in an essay by laura mulvey, it is the eroticism and subjection of women by men for means of pure visual pleasure. In this video piece I created for a final project of a pre-thesis 3rd year class, I ask the main question, "can this gaze be changed? reversed? turned in any way? even broken?" By the existence of a male character within any film it subconsciously informs our minds to think in such a way, that by media has throughly influenced to make us the viewer/ audience/ director/ the camera in the same way as whomever created it. I reference Jean-Luc Godard in this piece from his film Breathless, a classic example of "art cinema meets hollywood visual pleasure." I chose for this piece to change the gaze in such a way that I at first lure you to obvious recognition, only to surprise you in the end.

*I do not own any rights to music from the Breathless movie
*song/ music rights for "Hip-Hop violin" piece belong to Paul Dateh go check him out www.pauldateh.com

this is paying homage to the classic and transforming it with a certain feminist perspective.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• FILM
• cinema
• breathless
• short
• hollywood
• the gaze
• laura mulvey
• feminist
• art cinema
• jean luc godard

[coolbeansmac]

Thank you so much for your comment! :D this project turned out much better than I had initially planned so I'm pleased

[alksand2a]

interesting alternative to all those "Laura Mulvey was wrong" videos. I feel like shouting: she was right, but in 1975! I don`t need to do it watching your video.

Well done!!!

[jayraskin]

This film left me breathless.