Large Glass, the Cinematic Lens, Mirrors of My Own Making.

This short film was created by juxtaposing Marcel Duchamp’s sculpture/painting “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (created as 3 dimensionally animated characters and environment) with clips from the film “Pandora’s Box” (by Georg Wilhelm Pabst) and Lulu as the lead character. The work was intended to comment on the issues of Woman’s agency, self-perception, and feminine role playing, as conditioned by history of such images in fine art and film.

The mirrors play a central role in this short; they refer to a history of mirror iconography in art, and how this history reveals an ongoing sense of woman’s self perception.

Finally, the mirror is also a peculiar analogy to the computer screen through its ability to replicate with exactitude. Like Wagner’s opera, which provides the sound for this piece, this work attempts to be a modern, Gesamtskunstwerk ( “total work of art”), by collaging film, sculpture, digital media and opera.