Lie Back and Enjoy It
Identifier
F.2011-01-0280
Date Of Production
1982
Abstract
An eight-minute dialectical film about the politics of representation. More specifically, it examines the politics of filmic representation of women under patriarchy. An undergraduate male student paid it a true compliment in declaring that he can no longer look at a woman in a film without thinking about the consequences of the filmmaker's use of her as a person and as a spectacle. The film is endowed with remarkable structural and rhetorical lucidity. Its image track consists of technologically manipulated images of women, and some printed titles. Its soundtrack consists of a dialogue between a Man (a filmmaker) and a Woman (of whom he's going to make a film).
The audio track was improvised by JoAnn Elam and friend and fellow small gauge filmmaker Chuck Kleinhans. The dialogue was originally recorded for Kleinhans' film Shirley and Bruce, and was then cut for Lie Back and Enjoy It.
The audio track was improvised by JoAnn Elam and friend and fellow small gauge filmmaker Chuck Kleinhans. The dialogue was originally recorded for Kleinhans' film Shirley and Bruce, and was then cut for Lie Back and Enjoy It.
Run Time
8 min 20 sec
Format
16mm
Extent
300 feet
Color
B&W
Sound
Optical
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Element
Reversal Positive Print
Genre
Form
Subject
Related Collections
Related Places
Main Credits
Elam, JoAnn (is filmmaker)
Participants And Performers
Kleinhans, Chuck (is actor)
Elam, JoAnn (is actor)
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