Seeing Rage through CMYK

This project will explore attitudes to female rage and how it is treated in the media versus everyday reality. Through the screen, female rage exists in a celebrated frame. Yet female rage in reality is not revered; it is a frowned upon, ‘non-feminine’ trait to express strong reactions to feelings of anger. Additionally, emotions are often controlled due to the need to be aware of threats or feelings of guilt around reacting in a certain way. It is through the medium of cinema that women relate to those feelings of rage when characters fully lose it, and can live through them without experiencing the shame, guilt, and fear that would accompany female rage irl (in real life). Through the decontextualising of the iconic scene from Zuławski’s Possession, the project will appropriate the imagery to give new meaning to the actions performed.
 This project responds to the themes of reproduction and series through the techniques of Risograph printing; both through the repetition of printing multiple copies and also the re-presentation of manipulated film stills. I will re contextualise film stills that show scenes of female rage in full colour by playing with the processes of Risograph printing’s nature to print CMYK colours in separate layers.