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    Forced Back

    • 1983
    • 00h 02m 30s
    • Nida Home Doherty
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    Synopsis

    Forced Back uses the structural aspects of the camera and the female figure to present personal feelings of gradually increasing constraint.

    Categories

    • Experimental,
    • Body,
    • Feminism,
    • Performance

    Shooting Format

    • Umatic (3/4")

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Voice-Over,
    • Colour,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Ontario

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Artist: Nida Home Doherty

    Provided By

    • Video Pool Media Arts Centre

    More By Nida Home Doherty

    Isolated

    • 1984
    • Nida Home Doherty

    Individual figures are silhouetted against the vastness of the prairie landscape. The camera pans back and forth from one figure to another. The rhythm of the camera’s movement parallels a voice-over of single words related to isolation.

    Isolated

    Drawn To

    • 1983
    • Nida Home Doherty

    Drawn To uses the suggestion of the erotic -women eating raw liver- to present personal feelings of compulsion and repulsion.

    Drawn To

    Dying Down

    • 1982
    • Nida Home Doherty

    Dying Down parallels and compares human and electrical energy using the image of a woman running and the structural aspects of video production.

    Dying Down

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