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A Period of Concealment > By Lauren Vadnjal > Portable.tv> blog
" Seven Days of Menstruation is a new video by artist Annie Wong, and, yeah, it’s exactly what it sounds like. The almost abstract water formations appear intriguing and placid—and yet when we discover that the visuals are delineations of, well, someone’s period in a toilet bowl, our visceral internal reaction is of repulsion. This substance, here distanced form the body, becomes its own entity and a potent representation of the instinctual reaction to this ‘contaminated’ bodily fluid. Shot on a macro lens, the five minute silent film allows no reverie from the confrontation of the images." Read More
