The Story of I (1997) dir. Jo Ann Kaplan
A woman sits alone in a bare, whitetiled bath, reading Georges Batailles Story of the Eye. The bizarre events described by the text provoke a series of fantasies in which the room becomes a stage and the woman the main player. As her dreams unfold, she becomes the eye of the story, and her own body the object of its gaze. With a feminine hand, Story of I plucks Batailles central metaphor from its original context and reinvents its erotic vision from the insideout. The eye in the vagina, seen through blood, urine and tears, looks at itself in a mirror. .. a brave attempt at coming to terms with that huge area of the sexual imagination that still remains offllimits JG Ballard on Story of I
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