things girls do...

Summary

The past two decades have been saturated with representations of eating disorders and body image concerns, funneled through Donahue and Oprah, dramatized in The Best Little Girl in the World on ABC after school, confessed to by Princess Di with Barbara Walters on 20/20--all on TV.

All this media representation has been contextualized within feminist debates, its narrative presentation repetitive and inherently exclusionary. Filmmaker Broderick Fox offers up a beautifully shot, haunting tale about anorexia, sexuality and gender, but not at all one we might think we are familiar with.

This work is part of Fox's present exploration of 'alternative home movies'--subverting both their technologies and ideologies, utilizing everyday consumer technologies to bring forth viewpoints and voices traditionally relegated to marginalized, muted corners of society. Produced for a cash outlay of under $300.00 and edited on a borrowed Final Cut Pro system, Fox's work proves that challenging, non-traditional programming may be produced outside the Hollywood system and its multi-million dollar budgets.

Screenings/Exhibitions:

Riverside Film Festival, March, 2005.
Out on Screen, Vancouver, August, 2004.
Out Takes 2003 New Zealand, May, 2003.
International Documentary Film Festival, Sao Paolo Brazil, April, 2003.
Cinetax (dis)junctions: morphing the written word, U.C. Riverside, April, 2003.
LA Freewaves Video Festival, November, 2002.
New York Gay and Lesbian Film & Video Festival, June, 2002.
Winner, 2nd Prize, Experimental/New Media: U.Oregon Queer Film Festival, Feb. 2002.
Visible Evidence IX Video Tech Series, December 2001.
MIX New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Video Festival, November 2001.
Winner, Best Short Film: Fresno Reel Pride Festival, November 2001.
Outfest Los Angeles, July 2001.

Crew:

Written, Directed, Shot, and Edited by Broderick Fox
Original Score by Michael Cohen
Sound Mix courtesy of Bill Komar
Special Thanks to Laura Bialis

Broderick Fox is available for comment or questions at bfoxfilms@gmail.com or +1-323-578-7070

Broderick Fox Biography here