Williamsburg Regional Library

What Happened to Her

Label
What Happened to Her
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
What Happened to Her
Medium
electronic resource
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Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2016
Runtime
14
Summary
WHAT HAPPENED TO HER is a forensic exploration of our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen. Interspersing found footage from films and police procedural television shows and one actor's experience of playing the part of a corpse, the film offers a meditative critique on the trope of the dead female body. The visual narrative of the genre, one reinforced through its intense and pervasive repetition, is revealed as a highly structured pageant. Concurrently, the experience of physical invasion and exploitation voiced by the actor pierce the fabric of the screened fantasy. The result is recurring and magnetic film cliché laid bare
Technique
live action
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