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A lighthearted look at the culturally ubiquitous purse.

 
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  Experimental, 1998

  Length: 6 minutes

  Director: Liss Platt and Kelly Dolakinterview

  Distribution:
  Liss Platt
  35 East 7th Street
  Brooklyn, NY 11218
  718-853-5634
  http://artcon.rutgers.edu/faculty/lissplatt
  E-mail: lissplatt@thorn.net


airdate
june 25
Premiere:
Friday, June 25, 1999, 10pm, on Thirteen/WNET.
(Repeat: Sunday, June 27, 1999, 12 midnight.)
 
With a campy nod and specific allusions to contemporary horror films and the experimental Surrealist films of the '20s, this clever little piece looks at the culturally ubiquitous purse. Most women carry them and think nothing of it, but our two heroines are in for a big surprise when a chance encounter with some purses takes a sinister turn. The piece makes a tongue-in-cheek, yet unequivocal, statement about the discomfort some women feel over that conspicuously female appendage, the purse
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