Book of Knives

Film Maker
Derko, Kim
Year
1995
Country
Canada
Language
Format
16mm
Length
27
Genre
narrative
Category
body, history, Mental Health, Work about Women

“Book of Knives” is based on seven psychiatric case histories dating from 1905 up to the present. These stories are linked through the interrogation of a modern day woman, Iris, who has murdered her plastic surgeon. “Book of Knives” is a short history of women, technology & madness in the twentieth century, and calls into question both the ethics and methodologies of western scientific enquiry.

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