Stigmata: The Transfigured Body

Stigmata: The Transfigured Body

Production country: 
us
Year: 
1991
Duration: 
27'
Edition: 
1992
Format: 
film/video
"Stigmata: The Transfigured Body" by Leslie Gladsjo, scan from the VideoFest ‘92 program booklet.

Investigations of concepts of beauty, the troubling and intimate experience of pain, and the outer limits of female sexuality. Visceral encounters with women who practice unusual forms of body modification: tatooing, cutting, piercing, branding...The tape encourages the viewer to discover his or her opinions about the nature of sexual pleasure, the body as a tool for personal/political statements...

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