Writer and director Gillian Wallace-Horvat plays a fictionalised version of herself in this mockumentary style piece, all based around a “compliment” she once received – that she would make a great murderer.
Realising that as a woman in the film industry she has definitely developed a similar skill set to a psychopath, she convinces a friend over to her house to help her “hypothetically” plot to murder his girlfriend.
LANGUAGE: English
RUN TIME: 1h 25m
VIBE: Amateur filmmaking, the feminine urge to commit felony
This screening is part of THE FEMININE URGE, a series themed around alternative depictions of femininity, where violence, psychopathy and dissociation define female leads. The selected films look at the changing nature of feminine archetypes, with a move towards the ‘girlboss’ as a loyal subject of capitalism. In late-stage capitalism, girlboss culture relies on social expectations of femininity to enact a quiet evil – maintaining the status quo through a veil of softness, care and subjugation. The women on screen in THE FEMININE URGE represent a dystopian end-point for the deadly combination of quiet servitude and internal rage that capitalist-feminism feeds on, but in some cases also a cathartic and pure form of evil through urge fulfilment that rebels directly against societally-forced identities.