Personal Cuts

director: Sanja Iveković

original title: Osobni rezovi

year: 1982

running time: 4 min.

synopsis

By combining footage of herself cutting up stockings stretched over her head with various images from television, Iveković confronts social stereotypes and propaganda in Tito’s Yugoslavia with the concept of personal identity. Each new cut is followed by another piece of television footage until her entire face is revealed.

biography

Croatian photographer and sculptor Sanja Iveković (1949) is considered a pioneer of feminist art in eastern Europe. Her installations focus in particular on the role of the mass media in forming our individual identities.

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Sanja Iveković

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