What happens when the model takes back the camera? This doc flips the male gaze and doesn't blink.
A painter, a naked woman, and a camera. In this triple constellation we explore the power of the gaze and the roles it imposes on us. An artist's studio turns into the setting for questions about how we look at and perceive women. The naked skin of the model becomes the canvas for an audiovisual exploration of the ways in which seeing and being seen anchors us in our body. And how this body shapes our experience of the world and our role in it.
Direction
Grobusch turns the studio into a laboratory of seeing.
Cinematography
The camera becomes a character with its own agenda.
Director
Lena Grobusch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'female gaze' as a concept gained traction after Laura Mulvey's 1975 essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'; this film literalizes that academic theory in real time.
Grobusch and Hamp continued their collaboration for two years after filming, with Grobusch eventually painting Hamp—completing the circle the documentary only begins.
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