“Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction” (Francis Picabia) A few years ago I was given a roll of super 8 by curator Marie Canet, she explained to me that while a student she had a political interest in Brigitte Bardot and that on this roll of film was her movie about the actress. A time after that I mentioned this little roll of film to another friend of mine, another woman, not a filmmaker but a gardener, whom had also investigated feminism and gender politics as a student. She gave me a very slim book about Brigitte Bardot written by Simone de Beauvoir. Then more time elapsed and Bardot came back into my orbit this time in an artist’s catalogue on Hans Peter Feldman, included in his collection of material was a 1969 interview with Brigitte Bardot. The film almost made itself, I had years before shot on analogue Hi8 tape a series of, what I called then visual aphorisms for film and video, which basically illustrated metaphors of circular expenditure. I retrieved these aphorisms from my archive and combined them with other passages of 16mm found footage to do with consumerism and the factory work place, along with other modes of expenditure and thus, the polemical B-Movie was born. It is said that sometimes throughout a persons life they can traverse the gamut of political variations, Marxist, anarchist, fascist, right wing reactionary… this is a sort of portrait of one of the worlds greatest sex symbols in her youthful leftist period, which begs the question what ever happened to B!?
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