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How I Choose to Spend the Remainder of my Birthing Years

Blending personal narrative with shared pop cultural experience, the artist manifests a longheld childhood fantasy set within the love scene from "Dirty Dancing" (1987). "How I Choose to Spend the Remainder of my Birthing Years" juxtaposes pre-pubescent sexual desire with that of a woman descending her sexual peak. Fantasy is both a balm to religious piety and an act of resistance to the pressures put upon women approaching middle age. Here the digitally simulated image, in its wavering visual verisimilitude, exposes our willingness and desire to believe.

  • Sarah Lasley
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 20, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    HD video
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Sarah Lasley

Sarah Lasley is a Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning filmmaker, and an Associate Professor at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her no-budget films critique techno-utopianism with absurdist humor. Selected screening highlights include Slamdance, Ann Arbor, Big Sky, deadCenter, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Florida Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, 25 FPS Festival, and Les Instants Video. Her work has been reviewed by Film Threat, No Film School, RogerEbert.com, and The Washington Post. Her 2023 short Welcome to the Enclave won the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Award at the Chicago Critics Film Festival and was picked up for distribution on the Slamdance Channel and NoBudge. She has an MFA from Yale School of Art and was a resident at the Yale Norfolk Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

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