removed

Starting with a piece of vintage porn, filmmaker Naomi Uman painstakingly removed each female figure from the footage using nail polish remover, leaving a striking absence where there's usually a fleshy presence. Uman's celebrated film is a smart retort to pornography's obsessive gaze at the female body.

Cast

Ingrid Steeger

as (archive footage)

Hans Walter Clasen

as (archive footage)

Claus Tinney

as (archive footage)

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