The winner of numerous festival prizes, this early work by Lynne Sachs is a provocative film essay on women's perspectives on their bodies in a "man's world." It touches on everything from the female form's depiction in Renaissance art to the school of 19th century "scientific" thought equating "abnormal" physiognomy with criminality. This adventurous collage also features the filmmaker's own diaristic recollections (notably of being fitted for a diaphragm by a cold, intimidating doctor), poetical staged sequences, other women's audio testimonies, an old classroom instructional reel about menstruation, prose by Gertrude Stein and feminine "ideals" like the undulating young woman performing in fish-tail costumes at Florida's kitschy Weeki-Wachee Springs "Underwater Mermaid Theater." - Dennis Harvey
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| SSarah BeamsNot listed | Not listed |
| AAmelia DunneNot listed | Not listed |
| BBarbara FrankNot listed | Not listed |
| SStacey GilbertsonNot listed | Not listed |
| TTashwanna HarrellNot listed | Not listed |
| AAmelia LargeNot listed | Not listed |
| LLaDonna McKinneyNot listed | Not listed |
| DDana SachsNot listed | Not listed |
 Lynne SachsNot listed | Not listed |
| LLeslie AlperinNot listed | Not listed |
| GGigi DeRouxNot listed | Not listed |
| IIrish HiggensNot listed | Not listed |
| SSusan MeyersNot listed | Not listed |
| JJulie TerwilligerNot listed | Not listed |