MAID IN SOUTH AFRICA

of COHEN Steven

FRANCE, 2005, 00:12:36

Production : COHEN Steven
Genre : Filmed action, Video art
Keyword : Africa, Allegory, Dance, Society

Summary :
With a real political engagement, Steven Cohen questions about the body and its exploitation (referring to the prostitution, the exhausting manual work, relations between the different communities…) and pays tribute to his South African 84 years old wet–nurse, who has been the home servant in his family since his childhood. (Extracted from the program of “Les Subsistances”, Lyon, January 2005).

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