THTRFLM 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heterosexuality, Heteronormativity
16 Apr 2017
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Intricate mix of filmic strategies, e. g. soundscapes behind bradley"s storied voice-over. There are measured silences and domestic sounds, creaking furniture and buzzing of machines, street sounds of sirens and horns and nature sounds of gurgling water. Tolling bells (final sounds) underline the concerns of life and death. Voiceover narrative about charlotte, a woman obsessed with her mortality. Warding off the decay and excess of the body. The shedding of the body and that what means for her home. Her domestic environment is diseased by her dead hair and skin. She removes her body hair and she says that she feels free after she does so. Interrogating how the normalized ways of making the body to look a certain way. Combination of both leisurely ad rapid visuals speaks to a consideration of time and mortality. Close-ups f water life and nature; these images underline the significance of ecological and animal health in relation to human survival.
