Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Tourette's Tics

Janet Merewether 1994 Australia color 6min English DCP
This film is a short experimental mock-documentary which explodes the myth of the "hysterical woman", a myth perpetuated by Sigmund Freud, who has been described by some as "a reckless cocaine addict, guilty of mass plagiarism."This further questions the authority of the "expert in the white coat", and transforms hysteria into the hysterical.

Director

Janet Merewether

Janet Merewether is a writer/director and curation, and being a designer of motion graphics and film titles sequences for feature film, documentary , and broadcast. Her short film and videos, including Cheap Blonde and Contemporary Case Studies, have been screened internationally in the 2001 New York Film Festival, and her design work as has featured in award winning feature films such as Short Before the Movie screened at the New Director/New Films festival at MoMA and Lincoln Center, New York in 2003. Retrospectives of her work have been screened at the Arsenal Cinema Berlin, 2002, Boston Cinematheque, 2002, and the Seoul Women's Film Festival Korea, 2003.