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Wrapped in Plastic

color & sound RT 3:45 2006

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When I first saw David Lynch’s 'Twin Peaks' on television, I imagined Laura Palmer as an Indian bride, who prepares for her “curfew-less night,” only to be found on her wedding day, in her sari, pale, dead and wrapped in plastic. I wanted to explore these juxtapositions: the bride as a corpse, the wedding as a crime scene, and marriage as taxidermy. Through silent film, I examine Victorian attitudes and their morbid, hysterical, and eroticized fascination with death and violence, as depicted in the scenes when the bride attempts to slit her wrists and drown herself.

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