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  Lydia Schouten
Romeo Is Bleeding
 
  Netherlands 1982
11:00, colour
The producer of this video fulfils a variety of roles in a setting reflecting both comic-strip decors and primitive surroundings reminding one of Africa. Links are laid with the cultures of Africa, South America and Australia and the production makes clear, using both parody and seriousness that adventure and power are not male privileges. We see Lydia Schouten doing a ritual dance around a pair of primitive devil-like male figures, shooting a pistol and caressing male dummies. Moving images are interchanged with stationary ones which represent the internal message of this production and also the aesthetic peak.

Music: Sander Wissing, Production: Meatball