FILMS BY DOMAIN
Summer Bodies
What does constitute a summer body? What makes a body worthy of parading at the public pool? When should one be kept safely tucked under a large, stretchy tee shirt, to go without being seen? We investigate the way summer catalyzes women to confront their bodies, both privately and in the public sphere, and we explore the feminine urge to judge, examine, display, and change their bodies. The films in this domain bring us through girlhood and into womanhood. As the protagonists come of age and navigate their relationships to themselves, they seek to understand both what their bodies mean and what they are worth, to themselves and to others.
