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Me, a Depiction
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Me, a Depiction

Lisa Schamlé
Netherlands
2024
30 min
World Premiere
IDFA on Stage
Synopsis

In an intimate space it can feel slightly uncomfortable, voyeuristic even, to watch Lisa Schamlé draped as a living part of her own performance/installation on a mirrored object. In the mirror, Schamlé looks not only at herself, but also back at you, seeking contact with her audience in order to involve it actively in the process taking place.

In this third and final part of her trilogy on sexuality, Schamlé reclaims the autonomy of her body from where it has been lost: in the public domain, that abstract area where the female body is always exposed to the objectifying and normative gaze of the other. A gaze that has an absurd degree of power over the way women see themselves, and through which they often judge themselves, and each other, mercilessly.

Schamlé strives to escape the suffocating dictate of an idealized body image. This raises the question whether in art the gaze can become inquiring rather than judgmental.

Winner of the Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant 2024.

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Credits
30 min
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Spoken languages: English
Director
    Lisa Schamlé
    Lisa Schamlé
Production
    Lena Meijer
    Lena Meijer
Animation
    Lisa Schamlé
    Lisa Schamlé
Music
    Marijn Brussaard
    Marijn Brussaard
Screening copy
    Lisa Schamlé
    Lisa Schamlé

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