<div dir="ltr">- Initially (as in, for the first few minutes of the film) I wonder why the camera is on the floor. Has it been discarded or forgotten? Are we secretly surveilling this band as they rehearse?<div><br></div><div>- This feels like a meditation/twist on the way gigs are usually professionally filmed – i.e: from several vantage points in the audience rather than this intensely and intimately.</div><div><br></div><div>- But where is this gaze situated? It mainly feels as if it's at the front of the audience, in a spot where it's able to ponder on the guitarist's strumming fingers, the singer's arms and head as he leans into the microphone. But you'd surely never be able to film a 'real' gig this calmly, especially one as stonkingly heavy as this.</div><div><br></div><div>– For quite some time, it's unclear as to whether the group is alone or playing to an audience. How set up/directed is this?</div><div><br></div><div>- I like the title. "She Looks Back" makes me think of the female gaze, a woman looking at performing men – their bodies, their actions, their performances of masculinity. </div><div><br></div><div>- I know Stelhi's work is often concerned with female control of male images, so I'm really viewing this piece with that in mind.</div><div><br></div><div>- The title also makes me think of biblical and Greek myth: Orpheus and Eurydice; Lot's wife. It could also refer to the reenactment of a memory.</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Journalist and Critical Writer<div><u style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.helenahaimes.co.uk" target="_blank">www.helenahaimes.co.uk</a></u><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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