Feminist trilogy about the body, motherhood, migration and a change in climate.
The series of three videos of the initiative Fourth Wave, which was established in cooperation with Artyčok TV, deals with different social themes seen from the perspective of feminism. The formally different videos are linked by the theme of oppression or pressure which is caused by the stereotype approach to family and social roles, resulting expectations and limits of one´s own autonomy. Each theme evokes an atmosphere of the given problem and through a specific language aims at introducing possible solutions.
In the fantasy story Bella Body the two main characters of unspecified gender, Gizd and Zgarb, are trying to introduce their bodies to the hierarchical society. The body, at present regarded as one of the principal determining elements, whose form, colour or ability place it among social structures from which it is often hard to break free. It is seen as an economic potential and thus becomes a conflict of political interest.
The video about “transnational motherhood” is connected to the preceding theme by the motif of leaving the family. However, the separation from family is not an act of emancipation but the consequence of the socio-economic division of the world between the West and the East. Women have to choose between loneliness, hard work and degradation or life and upbringing of children in poverty in the Ukraine. The painful and often long separation causes deep chasms between mothers and their children with whom they keep in contact over many years only through Skype.
The climatic change in the video entitled Denier is not seen only as an environmental problem but also as a feministic problem. It shows the dichotomy between how women are affected by the changes of climate and how this problem is dealt with by men whose power is directly proportional to these impacts. What language is used to belittle climate changes? Where is the border between lies and absurdity?
