The Woman With The Severed Side

Jayne Amara Ross

Experimental film | France | 16 mm | 1.37 | b&w | mono | 2006 | 16' 00"

Original language: Anglais Screening Copy: digital

A study of the physicality of pain. A waggish nod to the FatherFang of German horror, the woman drag queen. ‘In The Woman with the Severed Side, pain irrupts into the frame, along with desire and solitude, all these seasons that the female body must surrender to. It is hard not to notice Jayne Amara Ross’ incredible skill here, the young film-maker’s strict use of celluloid and hands-on techniques betraying an esthetic rigour that is rare and admirable in an artist of her age.’ Gabriela Monelle (Culturopoing, June 2011) This film has also been shown as an installation piece entitled ‘A Stitch In Time Saves Nine... But Love is Aldready Too Late’.

Credits

Director: Jayne Amara Ross

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