removed (1999)

Starting with a piece of vintage porn, filmmaker Naomi Uman painstakingly removed each female figure from the footage using nail polish remover, leaving a striking absence where there's usually a fleshy presence. Uman's celebrated film is a smart retort to pornography's obsessive gaze at the female body.

Released Dec. 17, 1999 6 min None+

Genres: Animation, Short

Keywords: tmdb.woman-director, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.found-footage-film, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.reappropriated-images, imdb.female-orgasm, imdb.nail-polish + 7 more, imdb.two-way-mirror, imdb.male-gaze, imdb.collage, imdb.experimental-short, mdblist.three-actors, tmdb.experimental, tmdb.short-film