Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Janet Merewether 1996 Australia color 9min English DCP
This short video, based around a language lesson structure, intends to teach the language of Japanese intimacy in five easy steps. Open the heart for a video romancem, and enter a world which is out of synch , as Japanese television and iconography are deconstructed to reveal an erotic subtext. Suppressed thoughts and desires are liberated as geishas anf animated superheroes play out epic and banal tales of attraction.

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.