French filmmaker Eléonore Pourriat is on it, with her short “Oppressed Majority”:
And what if women filmmakers treated male subjects — even the ones they’re sympathetic to — the way male filmmakers treat female subjects?
Uh huh.
The lead actor here, Pierre Bénézit, is fantastic:
If you think this is horrifying… you should.
Stuff like this is why we need more women making movies.
Via Julide Tanriverdi at Awfj.
And what if women filmmakers treated male subjects — even the ones they’re sympathetic to — the way male filmmakers treat female subjects?
Uh huh.
The lead actor here, Pierre Bénézit, is fantastic:
If you think this is horrifying… you should.
Stuff like this is why we need more women making movies.
Via Julide Tanriverdi at Awfj.
- 3/5/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The gender role reversal video purports to target sexism and homophobia. But its essence is class bigotry, racism and misogyny
Sexism and homophobia in modern culture is like a "black tide", according to Eléonore Pourriat, the director of the short film Majorité Opprimée, which went viral this week. The 10-minute video explores life as it might be for men if gender roles were reversed.
Much of this is instantly recognisable. In the film, Pierre – a middle-class French man – is patronised, sexually harassed and belittled by women. However, this is familiar to the point of potentially being quite cliched. On its own, it is unlikely that such material would have made the film go viral, and result in being acclaimed as "Swiftian". But the emotional core of the film. The essence of the film, what makes it really compelling viewing, is its class bigotry, racism and – ironically – palpable misogyny. These are...
Sexism and homophobia in modern culture is like a "black tide", according to Eléonore Pourriat, the director of the short film Majorité Opprimée, which went viral this week. The 10-minute video explores life as it might be for men if gender roles were reversed.
Much of this is instantly recognisable. In the film, Pierre – a middle-class French man – is patronised, sexually harassed and belittled by women. However, this is familiar to the point of potentially being quite cliched. On its own, it is unlikely that such material would have made the film go viral, and result in being acclaimed as "Swiftian". But the emotional core of the film. The essence of the film, what makes it really compelling viewing, is its class bigotry, racism and – ironically – palpable misogyny. These are...
- 2/13/2014
- by Richard Seymour
- The Guardian - Film News
Eléonore Pourriat's short film imagines how a man might experience a sexual assault in a matriarchal society. 'I wanted it to be not so realistic but frightening,' she says
Have you seen the film Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée)? In less than a week since its director Eléonore Pourriat uploaded it to YouTube, the version with English subtitles has been watched over 2.3m times – and rising. The 10-minute film tells the story of Pierre, an ordinary guy, on an ordinary day, in an unnamed French town. But something is different in Pierre's world. Women are in charge. They run around barechested – hey, it's hot! – piss in an alley, and offer sexual favours to Pierre when he is stuck at a red light. (He's riding a bike, so his lack of physical barriers provides an opportunity if not a provocation.) Events culminate when Pierre is sexually assaulted at knifepoint. Inevitably,...
Have you seen the film Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée)? In less than a week since its director Eléonore Pourriat uploaded it to YouTube, the version with English subtitles has been watched over 2.3m times – and rising. The 10-minute film tells the story of Pierre, an ordinary guy, on an ordinary day, in an unnamed French town. But something is different in Pierre's world. Women are in charge. They run around barechested – hey, it's hot! – piss in an alley, and offer sexual favours to Pierre when he is stuck at a red light. (He's riding a bike, so his lack of physical barriers provides an opportunity if not a provocation.) Events culminate when Pierre is sexually assaulted at knifepoint. Inevitably,...
- 2/12/2014
- by Paula Cocozza
- The Guardian - Film News
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