Emma's Dilemma

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Emma's Dilemma (2012)

Directed by Henry Hills

Documentary, History · 1h 23m

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images and essences of such downtown luminaries as Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Carolee Schneemann, Hills’s cinematic inventions literally turn the screen upside down and inside out. In this epic journey into the picaresque, we follow Emma Bee Bernstein, our intrepid protagonist, from her pre-teen innocence to her late teen-attitude, as she learns about the downtown art scene firsthand. In the process, Hills reimagines the art of video in a style that achieves the density, complexity, and visual richness of his greatest films.

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Cast

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Emma Bee Bernstein Herself Carolee Schneemann Herself
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Jackson Mac Low Himself Ken Jacobs Himself Cheryl Donegan Herself
K
Keith Sanborn Himself

Crew

Director
Henry Hills

Details

Release date
2012-06-18
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Documentary, History
Original language
EN