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Voyeuristic Tendencies "
1984, 17 minutes,
16mm, black and white, sound
Directed,
Filmed and Edited by Dominic Angerame
"VOYEURISTIC
TENDENCIES is not so much a film about voyeurism as it is about our tendency to
be voyeuristic. That tendency, nurtured by the filmmaker’s carefully crafted succession
of visual teases and exploited by the camera’s ability to become
our eyes, becomes increasingly evident as the film progresses. The camera teases
the viewer, in this case, co-voyeur, not with sexual or erotic innuendo,
but rather with graphic and aesthetic challenges. The partially opened window
of a woman’s dressing room forces us to realize our urge to see more.
That urge comes not so much from a longing for exposed breasts, but
as a need to make the picture whole, and to know more about these hidden
worlds. This type of cinematically induced self-realization makes VOYEURISTIC
TENDENCIES a powerfully human film."Most
of the people we view appear to be merely going through the motions. Their actions
seem hauntingly void of emotion or thought. By temporarily
becoming Voyeurs, we were hoping for bigger and better things, e.g., passion...melodrama,
but are left with only
a secretary nervously tapping her nails."—Roger Nieboer
"...a perfect sex
film for the ‘80s. We are teased, cajoled, lured and finally snubbed as
we learn one possible answer to what has happened to sex; it has been subsumed
in our society’s current confusion between artifice
and reality."—James Irwin