7th(2005)
Working Girl
- Germany
- 2004
- 5min
- Beta
- color
SYNOPSIS
Working Girl is a music video that opens with a scene of female working robots being displayed to customers. The robots are housewives, tutors, flight attendants, secretaries and strippers, all subservient occupations focused on taking care of others. We see these robots perform the same monotonous actions with pale expressionless faces. Stübi’s video serves as a voyeuristic look into the restrictive gender-defined roles of women in a patriarchal society. (Kwon Eun-sun)
PROGRAM NOTE
Working Girl is a music video that opens with a scene of female working robots being displayed to customers. The robots are housewives, tutors, flight attendants, secretaries and strippers, all subservient occupations focused on taking care of others. We see these robots perform the same monotonous actions with pale expressionless faces. Stübi’s video serves as a voyeuristic look into the restrictive gender-defined roles of women in a patriarchal society. (Kwon Eun-sun)
Director
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Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland in 1977, Corine Stübi studied media design at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Since 2000 when she directed the video installation Talk with Friends and Speechless, she has made many film and video works in various formats. Her works include Shopping Barbie (2001), Nature Box (2003), Social Spot (2004) and Rocker (2004). She is actively pursuing her film career in Switzerland, Germany and England.
Credit
- ProducerCorine Stübi, Yanick Fournier
- Cast Corine Stübi, Jan Schomburg, Sandra Vansloote
- Screenwriter Corine Stübi
- Cinematography Dirk Lutter
- Editor Corine Stübi
- Music Amon Tobin, Proper Hoodidge
