Video capture of Arena
Mexico
00:05:48
Super8
Colour
Unknown
"Arena (Sand, 1986), a soft, grainy projection in which Mexican artist Silvia Gruner, naked, on a beach, climbs a dune, sits, rubs sand and red pigment over her body, and then somersaults all the way down. The video loops, and Gruner repeats her uphill trek again and again. Sisyphean, certainly, and yet her only burden was herself and that looked like freedom" (Brown, 2017)
This film appears in the DVD anthology Superocheros. Filmoteca UNAM, Mexico City, 2008.
Brown, Liz. Radical Women. 4 columns, 2017. Find this article in Radical Women
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