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21st Century Cinema

Madness Remixed

11m

Directed by Rhea Storr • 2021 • United Kingdom

MADNESS REMIXED examines the fetishization of Josephine Baker’s body through data-moshing analogue film. What unfolds is a questioning of which images of Black bodies should be reproduced and on what terms.

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