In Donald Duck's wisdom, the recognition of someone as a duck is clearly formulated: "If it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it talks like a duck: it is a duck". In her cartoon like tape, SUSAn Hinnum tries to formulate an equally clear answer to the questions of how a woman becomes an artist. To her mind, this is linked to long red nails, which she thinks could sometimes be an essential condition. But, if that is not the case, then it could possibly be large breasts that all famous painters throughout the ages have found so attractive. Then she realizes that looking like a model is different from being an artist. Could it have something to do with what the hand holds? Is the penis then the indispensable attribute for a woman to count? In this ironic feminist commentary on the art scene of 1996, SUSAn Hinnum puts herself into the long tradition of (female) artists who keep taking up the gender issue. Even if the 'taking up' is very literally contrived here.
– Carla Hoekendijk
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Camera Jan Hansen, Editing Ludwig Lohse, Voice Anna Bridgwater, Thanks to Anna Bridgwater, Lars Bent Petersen, Production i.s.m. Danish Film Institute
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