Bullets For Breakfast ( Bullets for Breakfast / From the Ladies / Glass Shadows / This Is Montage / Softshoe )

Bullets For Breakfast (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Bullets for Breakfast / From the Ladies / Glass Shadows / This Is Montage / Softshoe
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
137 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1976-1992 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Holly Fisher

Written By:
Holly Fisher

Actors:
Betty Fitzsimmons ..... Self
Roberta Hooper
Ryerson Johnson
Nancy Neilson
Heide Schlüpmann

Synopsis:

Bullets for Breakfast: This movie examines the role women play in Westerns from a feminist perspective. It uses clips from old Westerns and includes conversations with a pulp Western writer, a film critic, a poet and a fish packer. From the Ladies: Filmed in the multiple-mirrored women's bathroom of the New York City Holiday Inn-in which the most visible object was myself looking at myself, looking at… In pursuit of contradictions. Glass Shadows: 'Glass Shadows is a sensual formalistic diary, filmed in the early morning light of my studio. The primary images are of my Bolex-filming nude reflection set within window frames, a pane of glass, and light projected by the rising sun. The film moves forward via on-going exploration of reflected and overlapping images--sustained by light, color, and the rhythmic pulse of a leaky kitchen faucet. A fusion of form and subject is inevitable within a work that is the story of its making.' - Holly Fisher . This Is Montage: Form, this film explores relationships between film and language while playfully challenging the Russian filmmaker's theory of film montage … and thus lies between a wink and a nod to the master. Also a bit of tongue-in-cheek to myself as aspiring film studies student: had I been a good typist I very likely would never have become a filmmaker.' - Holly Fisher. Softshoe: Optical printing links East with West within a mosaic of looped, layered and shifting images filmed originally on Super 8 while on a (train/car/thumb) trip across Europe in 1978. Swinging cow udders, woman sweeping, farm woman walking, nuns chanting, Nude Descending, voices in a bread shop, Dachau and other artworks from Documenta 7, riding the escalator of the Centre Pompidou, etc. are layered in overlapping, shifting, and repetitive frame-clusters pulled from Super 8 footage filmed on a trip that began in Bucharest and ended in Paris. Disparate elements are combined and manipulated to construct a lyrical work about walking, history, and memory.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 15 October, 2022.