Home Economics with A Stubborn Bloom
2021
11 min
English
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A re-staging of instructional texts from Home Economics Textbooks used in the 1970s, outlining the correct manner for personal grooming, house-keeping, and entertaining. The film critiques the extreme performativity of femininity through gestures and costumes to a soundtrack of highly gendered phrases taken verbatim from the textbooks.
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Stephanie Jane Burt · Director
Daniela Monasterios Tan · Director
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