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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)
Mindblowing revelations of how filmmaking process demeans women
Once you see this movie, you can't unsee what it clearly demonstrates.
Brainwashed is a giant step in bringing awareness to the subtle and not-so-subtle ways women are treated as second class citizens through cinematic process and technique. Brainwashed shows how consistent camera angles, lighting, and other shot design elements are applied exclusively to women, such that women are almost exclusively presented as objects of other's (men's mostly) desires rather than as their own subjects in the characters they portray.
This below awareness process inculcates patriarchal codes! "If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory."
This is a meta-level awareness game changer of a film! Must see!
DOSED (2019)
Engaging, eye opening and important
This well made film documents a deeply personal journey of recovery from some of the most difficult substances around (heroin and methadone). The filmmakers were able to document the process over a long enough time to show the very real struggles involved and how this was not a quick fix, though in the big picture it is much quicker than other methods. Adrienne, the subject of the documentary, is not your stereotypical addict, which adds weight to the seriousness of the opioid addiction epidemic. It can affect anyone.
The film keeps us engaged with masterful camera work and editing that mirror the unpredictability of the actual journey toward getting past addiction. This film will open your eyes to not only the reality of addiction but also to the healing powers of psychedelics.