Private Project

How Much is the Bite?

As part of the exhibition "Coordenadas Móviles: Redes de colaboración entre mujeres en la cultura y el arte (1975-1985)", presented at Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Georgia Horgan was invited to make a work in response to the documentary Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti, by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen. 

The resulting work was How Much is the Bite?, a film that operates around the binaries presented in Wollen and Mulvey's documentary: the personal and political; roots and movement; inside and outside; wounds and beauty; and subsequently, how they intertwine.

The narrative follows a young woman and her friend on a journey to Texas, where they source an endoscope to carry out a mysterious experiment. The story is located somewhere between fiction and documentation, creating real scenarios to tell an imagined story. Landscapes are scrutinized from the view of an endoscope, while the bodies are captured by a CCTV lens. Heads and bodies are always separated, cut off by necks or faces staring into the lens. This series of binaries references motifs in Modotti and Kahlo's work: medical equipment, landscapes, industry, piercing stares, and faceless subjects.

These images are, however, united by the film's constant, highlighting an omission in Mulvey and Wollen's documentary: the friendship between two women.

  • Georgia Horgan
    Director
  • Georgia Horgan
    Writer
  • Gabo Barranco
    Music
  • Sebastián Salas
    Sound Design
  • Marco Hernández
    Sound Design
  • Daniel Uranga
    Prop Fabrication
  • Gaby Cepeda
    Key Cast
    "Gaby"
  • Georgia Horgan
    Key Cast
    "Georgia"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 30, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 MXN
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico, United States
  • Language:
    English, Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, Full HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Coordenadas Móviles, exhibition at Museo Carrillo Gil
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    September 30, 2023
    National Premiere
Director Biography - Georgia Horgan

Georgia Horgan (b.1991, UK) is a British artist based in Mexico City. She makes videos, performances, objects, and texts that explore feminist strategies for writing history. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, Jerwood Space and Mimosa House in London, and the Talbot Rice Gallery and Collective in Edinburgh, Glasgow International, Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York, and Exile Gallery in Vienna. She has also participated in various festivals and events, including screenings at the ICA in London and the FeKK Short Film Festival.

Horgan's artistic practice extends to writing, with essays and reviews published in various journals and catalogs, including Flash Art, Nothing Personal Magazine, and MAP Magazine. She has received numerous awards and grants, including the Creative Scotland Open Project Fund, Arts Council England funding, the Glasgow Visual Arts and Craft Award, and the Elephant Trust grant. Horgan has also been an artist-in-residence at the Nave Proyecto residency in Ecuador and the SOMA Summer residency in Mexico City.

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