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Don't do to her what you did to me

  • Don't do to her what you did to me
Genre : Experimental
Type : Film essay
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2001
Format : Short
Running time : 9 (in minutes)
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A close-up shot of a glass being filled with water. A hand is writing "don't do to her what you did to me" on the back of the photographs representing a woman. A flush of black ink (from the writing) flows downwards, drowning, plunging, staining the water... One is aware of the limited space where a struggle takes place between a probable spoon and the photographs which dematerialise under one's eyes. The sheer immediacy of the destruction process is intensified as the image dissolves into an organic paste. Then, a woman, the artist, drinks the solution, the last ironic phase of the talisman.

directed by Zineb Sedira

Algeria, UK - 2001 - 8 mn 43 s -

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Il video presenta una sorta di rituale. Gocce d'inchiostro si disperdono nell'acqua assieme alle fotografie di una donna, sul cui retro una mano ha precedentemente scritto la frase del titolo. Lo spettatore vede le immagini deformate attraverso il vetro del bicchiere. La miscela viene mescolata e bevuta, mentre il volto della donna si liquefa, si frammenta e scompare. L'inchiostro che si scioglie, formando delicati arabeschi, prelude al destino della donna, alla sua condanna all'invisibilità.
Regia: Zineb Sedira

Algérie/Royaume-Uni - 2001 - 8 mn 43 s -

1998/2001, 9 min

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  • Malawi : Blantyre Arts Festival

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