Damsel Jam
    Damsel Jam

    Damsel Jam

    1992
    13 min
    DirectorSarah Miles
    Release Year1992

    Synopsis

    An organic documentary. Girls experience and women remember being twelve years old, jammed together in a menstrual hearse (a white Talbot lined with red velvet). The body remembers what the mind forgets, going forwards towards the past. Each woman’s memory is reflected in her representation: Stella as an angry, haggard Tinkerbell; Emma made up as Marilyn, headbanging in the forest of dreams. My mother asks for a bag over her head.