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Additional authors

1. Mulvey, Laura.
2. Wollen, Peter.
3. British Film Institute.

Description

1. 3 film reels (92 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.

Summary

1. The film weaves episodes from a woman's life with narration and music, joining a naturalistic story with an avant-garde form. The story of Oedipus and the Sphinx is juxtaposed with the contemporary fable and used as a metaphor for the rise of the patriarchy and displacement of the matriarchy. The film centers on the situation of Louise, a middle-class mother obsessively involved with her four-year-old daughter. The soundtrack is devoted to her rhyming, circular stream of consciousness. Louise's oblique progress with motherhood is depicted in a series of 360-degree panning shots. The effect is to rotate the boundaries of her world in a kind of slow delirium. (Circulates)

Subject

1. Experimental films
2. Women > Fiction
3. Feature films
4. Feminist films

Credits (note)

1. Directors, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen.

Performer (note)

1. Dinah Stabb.

Title

1. Riddles of the Sphinx [motion picture] / British Film Institute.

Imprint

1. New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1977.

Credits

1. Directors, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen.

Cast

1. Dinah Stabb.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Reserve Film and Video Collection Special Collections material

Added author

1. Mulvey, Laura.
2. Wollen, Peter.
3. British Film Institute.

Branch call number

1. M16 3789 R