“For the Lucky and the Strong” synchronizes appropriated YouTube clips from nine young women to create a united chorus singing Bette Midler’s “The Rose.” Evoking a stalker-like quality by design, “For the Lucky and the Strong” makes the viewer complicit as voyeur, along with the masses who fixate on vulnerable young girls. The women stare into their webcams, some self-consciously, in an act of performative bravery and dramatic teenage angst, but they cannot hold the gaze and look away.
For the Lucky and the Strong
- Film Maker
- Sheppard, Kim
- Year
- 2009
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Format
- Length
- 3
- Genre
- documentary, experimental, queer
- Category
- cameraless, found footage, LGBTQ, Sound Art + Music, Work about Women, Work by Women
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