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"From its initial visual and sonoric opposition between what also might
be called public and private views of the female body, the tape alternated
between repeated images of two of the women (Zando and Anstey, still dressed
in their vintage gowns, as they enter a room, primp, and eventually kiss
and embrace) and the televised footage of Dwyer committing the act of suicide....The
tape combines in different ways the supposedly "public" act of Dwyer's
suicide and the supposedly "private" seduction of two women in a room,
all the while undoing any such easy opposition between private and public,
subject and object of the look, or voyeurism and exhibitionism.
Judith Mayne, "Julie Zando's Primal Scenes and Lesbian Representation,"
Quarterly
Review of Film and Video, Vol 15(1), pp.15-22 |
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Hey Bud has exhibited worldwide and is
in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Bud Dwyer was a government official who called a press conference and
shot himself in front of TV cameras. The very last words of the video,
which play over an image of Anstey brushing her hair superimposed over
Dwyer lifting the gun and putting it in his mouth, are, "Hey Bud. Bud.
Don't."
Hey Bud was directed by Julie Zando. Josephine Anstey is
one of the main performers in the piece . |
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