Short film

6mins 16mm/BetacamSP Colour
© 1994 Go Girl Productions

synopsis:

What do Gilles de la Tourette's disease,
animal impersonators, Freud's patients
and the Ancient Greeks have in common?

TOURETTE'S TICS is a short experimental
mock-documentary which explodes the myth
of the 'hysterical woman', a myth perpetuated by Sigmund Freud, who has been described
by some as 'a reckless cocaine addict, guilty
of mass plagarism.'

TOURETTE'S TICS questions the authority
of the 'expert in the white coat', and
transforms hysteria into the hysterical.

cast:

Animal Impersonator - Achilles Lavidis

crew:

Writer/Director/Editor/Designer - Janet Merewether
Camera (live action) - Chantal Abouchar
Sound Recording - Deb Harris
Sound FX / Vibes - Nick Meyers
On-Line Editor - Peter Butterworth

awards:

WINNER of AAV prize for BEST VIDEO
St Kilda Short Film Festival 1994

festivals:

St Kilda Film Festival
Auckland Int'l Short Film Festival 1994
Sydney Film Festival 1994
Brisbane Int'l Film Festival 1995
Women on Women (WOW) festival (Syd, Perth)
AFI Cinema/Sydney Intermedia Network's 'Animated Moments' program 1993.
Ann Arbor Festival USA 2001
Boston Cinematheque 2001
Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin 2002
Women's Film Festival in Seoul/
Women Make Waves Taipei 2003

Purchased by Griffith Artworks collection, 1996.
Screened in Amsterdam on 'Almanac-Art on Television' program, 1999

distribution:

North America / International
V tape, Toronto, fax: 1 416 351 1509
info@vtape.org
http://www.vtape.org

Europe
Montevideo, Amsterdam, fax: 31 20 624 4423
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
info@montevideo.nl
http://www.montevideo.nl

Go Girl Productions

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