Rawr: Kitchen, rage, Judith and I

Abstract

Through aggressive repetitions and superimpositions of sound and images, this video (essay) proposes to give an audiovisual form to Judith Butler’s theorisation of gender as a performance made of repetitions of stylised acts. This experimental film creates a formal or ‘autopoetic’ manifestation of the rage that generations of feminist theorists and filmmakers have expressed at the idealised and uninhabitable embodiment of gender.

Keywords

• abjection
• domestic space
• experimental video-essay
• gender roles
• sexist violence