Assignment 5

In his short film Through the Night Softly, Chris Burden crawls through 50 feet of broken glass. This symbolizes "power" for he is able to endure the pain of his skin rubbing against broken glass, but it also resembles "vulnerability" by putting himself in that state.

Inspired by this, I made a feminist version of this video, Through the Day Softly. Instead of crawling though broken glass with hands tied behind my back, I crawled through series of clothes hangers with my hands behind my neck with wrist weights attached to my arms. Rather than resembling "power" and "vulnerability," this video resembles "feminism" for being surrounded by clothes hangers, but also "strength" for being weighed down and enduring through difficult motions of crawling with physical limitations.

Original Video
http://www.ubu.com/film/burden_tv.html

Source
http://www.volny.cz/rhorvitz/burden.html