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The first of 3 retrospective shows:
Betzy Bromberg

Petit Mal (1977) 16mm, color, sound, 18 min.; Marasmus (1981) in collaboration with Laura Ewig 16mm, color, sound, 24 min.; Body Politic (god melts bad meat) (1988) 16mm, color, sound, 40 min.

Petit Mal: the abstracted voice of one and many women searching; Marasmus: a woman's response to technology / the jet lag of birth; Body Politic (god melts bad meat): travels through a realm of modern moral dilemma as it examines the relationship between high-technology medicine, religion, politics and the American family. "These are works of multiple affect, or, as a voice says in one film, 'speaking in tongues'; they hover on the edge of control and are pinioned by the twin axes of women's victimization and women's resistance." Paul Arthur, Millennium Film Journal