WOMEN IN REVOLT, AN INSTALLATION BY BRUCE LABRUCE A white room. A white television set. A bloody handprint.
I recently set out to make a video compilation of clips from my favourite mainstream narrative and art movies. After I'd pulled them all, I realized that on a purely subconscious level most of my choices involved women, often in some form of masquerade, either in the midst of a nervous breakdown or in the process of killing themselves or someone else. Invariably they were in some stage of revolt.
It raised some questions. Should someone report me to Women's Lib? Is there still a Women's Lib to be reported to? Am I, a fag, painfully identifying with these women? Or is it just an excuse to be a misogynist like so many other homosexual men?
Or, to quote Tippi Hedren in Marnie, will it cross your mind that "I don't have to watch that filth to know that women are stupid and feeble and men are filthy pigs."
You decide.
Most of the scenes came from movies from the sixties or seventies, quite often involving Tuesday Weld or Natalie Wood. I added a modern soundtrack.
But is it art?
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