Skip to main content
Blind Country

Blind Country

Ericka Beckman

1989 · 21m

Blind Country

January 1, 198921m
Community grade. The average of the grades people here gave it. No critics, no outside scores.
No grades yet

or to grade, review, and add to your backlog.

Overview

This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country of blind people and attempts to dominate their sensual, feminine culture with his male, sight-derived power. Following this theme, "Blind Country" begins with animated fruit dancing over Mike Kelley's body and the admonition of "Northerners" to "refill the quickly emptying sack." In the male-dominated land of the North, candy-spurting pinatas stand as phallic symbols. Presumably castrated, and stripped of his authority, Kelley acts the buffoon as he is led through the murky land of the South, a "female," earthy, "realm of the senses" opposing the phallocentric world of the North.

Community reviews

No reviews yet

Be the first to review this movie.

More like this