Story Of I

Story Of I

Production country: 
gb
Year: 
1997
Duration: 
23'
Edition: 
1997
Format: 
film/video

A woman sits alone in a bare, white-tiled bath, reading George Bataille's "Story of the Eye". The bizarre events described by the text provoke a series of fantasies in which the room and its accoutrements become the stage and the woman the main player. As her dreams unfold, she becomes the "eye" of the story and her own body the object of its gaze. With a feminine hand, "Story of /" plucks Bataille's central metaphor from its original context and re-invents its orotic vision from the inside-out. The eye in the vagina, seen through blood, urine and tears, looks at itself in the mirror.

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