Hemorrhage

My anger at the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health that eviscerated abortion rights triggered this work. I first animated a sequence of rubbings of a coat hanger, and then, through iterative processes of filming, further rubbings and incorporating images and text appropriated from the Sunday print edition of The New York Times, I developed more sequences. The film evolves from a series of formal experiments in movement to outright agit-prop against increasingly repressive forces in the US that violate women’s bodily autonomy and endanger their health. The soundtrack, composed by Peter Randlette, integrates sampled voices from the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health arguments presented before the Supreme Court.