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Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Body Parts

Director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan Composer Nainita Desai Cast Alexandra Billings, Jane Fonda, Silvia Bottini
90' - 2022 - Documentary - Dialogue: English

Sex and nude scenes are commodities in Hollywood, and that has a significant influence on the audience. The spine-chilling documentary Body Parts offers a disconcerting look behind the scenes of the American film industry.

For decades, the image that cinema gave us of sex shaped the prevailing view of sex in real life. "When Hollywood introduced the Hays Code in 1934 – a form of self-censorship – sex was no longer perceived as pleasant, but as evil", says academic Linda Williams at the start of Body Parts. Yet, director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan doesn't linger too long on the distant past. Instead, she looks at the consequences of the male gaze that was (and largely still is) dominant in Hollywood for so long. With a shocking testimony from Jane Fonda, among others, who tells us that not getting out of her clothes would have plummeted her career. Also the one-sided view of sex in blaxploitation is mercilessly analysed. In light of the #MeToo movement, Body Parts wants to look at the future as well: if women gain more power in the film industry, then change is possible.
“Exploring the female body in Hollywood by tracing the making of sex scenes, the toll it takes on those involved, and what it means for women in the real world. Body Parts unpacks both how we got to this patriarchal cinematic state and how those in the camera’s line of sight are now shooting back” - Modern Times Review
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The workshop takes place after the screening of Body Parts on 17.10 - 14:00.

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Credits

Directors

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Composers

Nainita Desai

Cast

Alexandra Billings, Jane Fonda, Silvia Bottini

Director of Photography

Frazer Bradshaw, Jason Joseffer

Editors

Liz Kaar, Anne Alvergue

Producers

Helen Hood Scheer

Production studios

Nutshell Productions, Chuparosa Films

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Dialogue

English

Countries of production

United States of America

Year

2022

Filmography

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
El corrido de Cecilia Rios (short, 1998), Going on 13 (2008), Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2013), What Happened to Her (2016), The End of Weed (2018), Eagles (2021), Body Parts (2022)