Starting with a piece of vintage porn, filmmaker Naomi Uman painstakingly removed each female figure from the footage using nail polish remover, leaving a striking absence where there's usually a fleshy presence. Uman's celebrated film is a smart retort to pornography's obsessive gaze at the female body.
Direction
Naomi Uman's nail polish remover activism.
Editing
Frame-by-frame erasure becomes haunting poetry.
Practical Effects
Chemical destruction as filmmaking technique.
Director
Naomi Uman
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