Embodied Media Encounters: Ariel Avissar

This video applies a deformative logic to images taken from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” (1989), connecting them intertextually with the film “Under the Skin” (2013), which provides the music for the piece. It thus highlights and accentuates the violent, rageful gender dynamics of “The Little Mermaid”, reimagining it as a nightmarish scene of body horror […]

Embodied Media Encounters: Ariel Avissar