A woman patient becomes both the subject and site of an ophthalmologist’s probe. “Signal” parallels an eye examination with semaphore codes to suggest that the modern visualizing technologies used in science and the military have colonized the body and forever changed the boundaries reached, the vision, and the language of the individual self.
Signal
- Film Maker
- Rynard, Susan
- Year
- 1993
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Format
- 16mm
- Length
- 3
- Genre
- experimental
- Category
- body, science/medicine, Work about Women, Work by Women
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