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Identity Crisis

Mindy Faber

1989 00:03:11 United StatesEnglishColorStereo

Description

With wit and humor, seven-year-old Kendra portrays ten female stereotypes, including an ingratiating Southern belle, a motorcycle-riding tough chick, and a simpering housewife. Under the rubric of playing dress-up, the video illustrates the pervasive, prescribed personalities available to women, and the early age at which girls recognize these choices. But, as outtakes reveal, spirited Kendra’s is infinitely more complex than the cardboard cut-outs she depicts.

This title is also available on Mindy Faber Videoworks: Volume 1.

About Mindy Faber

Grounded in biting humor, a surreal sensibility, and engaging personal narrative, Mindy Faber's tapes are informed by political and feminist thought, exploring the construction of female identity as a result of social expectations and limitations. Blending personal stories with an investigation of broad social forces, Faber’s tapes chart the complexities of female psychology in mother/daughter and interpersonal relationships.