Treatment

4 minutes. Colour. Silent. Mini DV.

Shown as part of the interactive piece Central Location, Treatment is a collage of six films (Bent, The Magdalene Sisters, Hiroshima mon amour, Full Metal jacket, and Performance) depicting violent hair shaving or cutting, all within different contexts; joining the army, prisoners in a concentration camp, punishment of women for sleeping with Nazis, as a criminal threat, and as a disciplinary act in a convent. The film reflects the historical and cultural cross referencing embedded in forced hair cuttingand shaving.