"The film is charming, but it is still labour. The labour to engage in demanding what should already be ours."
With reference to Jack Smith, the New York underground performer and filmmaker from the 60’s to the 80’s, as well as to the history of queer and feminist calls such as "wages for housework!", the film recreates the "housewife" as an ambiguous figure with an open future. Additional references extend from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s becoming-animal to the Dandy of the 19th century, who – as Walther Benjamin described – would protest the clock pulse of industrialisation by walking turtles on leashes or to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ironic critique of capitalism in the film "The Hawks and the Sparrows".
Informations on the film:
CHARMING FOR THE REVOLUTION, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, 16mm/DVD 11 min. loop, 2009
Performance: Werner Hirsch
Camera: Bernadette Paassen
Sound: Karin Michalski
Sound design: Rashad Becker
Set Photography: Andrea Thal
Links: www.boudry-lorenz.de
