HANNE NIELSEN & BIRGIT JOHNSEN _ VIDEORAUM

  DK   UK

Grinding Onions  
Lengh: 6:27 min. 1995


Grinding onions shows two women performing in a trivial scene from daily life – grinding onions. The video deals with the collective experience in crying which can be seen as a feminism statement about female circumstances as well as the construction opens up for our collective experience with in crying  and confronts the spectator with suffering as  a concept.
 

Credits


Techinical ass.: Flemming Møldrup, Boris Bouscayrol.
Sound and editor: Peter Roland Jensen.
                  Bendt Ewald and Lise Jul Pedersen.
Produced with support from Aarhus Filmworkshop.