Body Typed: A Series of Short Films about Body Image
Wet Dreams and False Images received the Judges Awards and the Audience Award at the Iron Mule Comedy Film Festival
34x25x36 screened at The MacDowell Colony, and can be watched on the PBS Site:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/34x25x36/
Impact:
Part of the audience engagement campaign includes the FILMS IN ACTION video series, showing activists and educators using the films in creative ways. Watch a workshop with youth poets, and a screening/ discussion in a barbershop here:
http://jessedocs.blogspot.com/p/films-in-action-video-series.html
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Directed by: Jesse Epstein
Executive Produced by Chicken & Egg Pictures
Granted on: 2005-01-01
Production Stage: Completed
3 Short Films designed to start important conversations about body image, media, and self-esteem.
- Wet Dreams and False Images (Winner: Sundance Film Festival, ALA/ YALSA Award)
- The Guarantee (Best Short Film - Newport International Film Festival)
- 34x25x36 (National PBS Broadcast on PBS)
Wet Dreams and False Images (12 min.) Exposes the art of digital photo-retouching How do images of perfect female beauty influence men’s perceptions of real women? And, how do we see ourselves?
The Guarantee (11 min.) Teasing, self-perception, cultural identity, and plastic surgery. How would changing our bodies to try to fit an image alter the way we see ourselves? -- Or even who we are? A dancer’s hilarious story about his prominent “Italian” nose and the effect it has on his career.
34x25x36 (8 min.) A look at mannequins, religion and perfection. Enter the inner workings of the Patina V Mannequin Factory and see what goes into making “the ideal woman of the moment” — in plastic.
