Ann Marie Fleming

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Ann Marie Fleming Culture Jam

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Ann Marie Fleming

• an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer and
  artist,
• born in Okinawa (??),
• of Chinese and Australian parentage.

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Ann Marie Fleming Subjects

• Gender Issues
• Gender Difference, AMFs Tiresias
• Womens Experience of violence,
• the Life of an Artist (stickgirl)
• Desire, Life and Survival
• Personal Memories ? pioneers of x-ray
  technology waving

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Waving

• With a nod to Stevie Smith's poem "i wasn't
  waving, but drowning," a woman recalls the
  intense, complex relationship she shared with her
  grandmother.

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Waving

• How are the grandmother and granddaughter
  related to each other? What does swimming mean
  in this film?

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Waving grandmother

• Grandmother ? grandfather does not sleep with
  him for thirty years What do you want out of my
  young life?
• Childhood 1) learning to swim 2) Lonely little
  girl
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• Adulthood -- She does not like any of my friends
  she likes everything I do
• She does not do anything but . . .
• She froze drowning.

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Waving

• swimming
• Father ?????? ?????????
• Afloat in the water of eternity with memories
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• Amniotic water bonding between the two.

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Pioneers of X-Ray Technology according to AMF

• Originally interested in combining a
  documentation of Dr. To's achievements with the
  larger theme of the voyeuristic aspects of the
  medium, I find myself now making a film about the
  relationship between Grandpa and me.
• . . . all he is giving me is fragments.
• It's like you need X-ray vision to see what's
  really going on inside.

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Pioneers of X-Ray Technology according to AMF

• How is this grandfather presented? Accomplished?
  Scatter-brained?
• Why is the interview scene intersected with the
  scenes of Ann Marie as a baby?
• What are the functions of the inserted words?
• What are the central motifs in this film?

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Achievements

• Fragments
• -- not answering the question about nude women
• -- At 17, got his car interested in cars and
  cylinders ? AMFs car bought by him
• -- the war the immigrants
• -- the father
• -- attracted to big buildings

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Family Pioneers

• The narrator Looking for grandmother adding
  her own images, with her mothers voice?

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Achievements and Family

• But all I could see was granny, mum, and me
  blowing kisses

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Achievements and Family

• Respect and Acknowledgment of his aging.

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AMFs Tiresias

• Where do we see that its a personal revision of
  Tiresias?
• What do you think about Flemings self-image (as
  a stickgirl)? How are men and women presented?
• How are the different social roles presented
  through Tiresias sex change?

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Culture Jam

• Batman-inspired Jack Napier of the Billboard
  Liberation Front,
• Disney arch-enemy Reverend Billy from the Church
  of Stop Shopping and Media
• Tigress Carly Stasko.

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BLF

• "As always, the alterations were done using paper
  and rubber cement which can be peeled off the
  billboard without damaging the original
  advertisement."

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examples

• HITS HAPPEN -- NEW X-100
• ? SHIT HAPPENS -- NEW EXXON

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