Monday, January 3, 2011

Retreat Day 1: Courtesan Cliche studies

Hari Krishnan, our director gave us an assignment to each come up with 5 cliche of courtesans and then make short studies of each stereotypes.

The password for them all is "cliche"


Anj's cliches in the following order: seductress, servant of god, cheap prostitute whore, beautiful, Man’s servant


Cynthia's cliches in the following order: STD, crass, Gungat/veil, powerful, money hungry


Shyamala's cliches in the following order: exotic temple dancer, Shameful, innocent victim of society, Oriental fantasy, loose woman


Sandra's cliches in the following order: fetishized; commercially sexualized; past; attitude

Sandra's study 1:

Babli Cliche 1- draft from Sandra Chatterjee on Vimeo.

Sandra's other cliche studies:

Sandra other cliche studies from Sandra Chatterjee on Vimeo.



And Cynthia made a monologue that might insert into "Tell me, Sister" after the sand video is projected on her sari and before the wrist video is projected on her back.

password is "tell me"

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