Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Taking Her for a Spin

Janet Merewether 1997 Australia color 5min English DCP
Shot on the roaf from Sydney to Broken Hill and the places inbetween. The car, the lust, the road, the road kill. The expanse, the fear, the commuion, the return.On journey by road and by foot. Male (car) traverses female (land) and all that's left are bodies (cold).

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.