Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary: Medusa

19 Jul 2023 6.30-8.45pm

Overview

Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary present Hideous Thing Inside
Delving into fairy tales and folklore to explore the wild feral, forbidden, feminine.

Jezebel! Slut! Sinner! Satan’s Child! Delilah!

Lifelong friends Mari and Michele moonlight as vigilantes who roam the streets at night beating up women they deem sinful. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her view of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift…

Inspired by the rise of radical evangelical Christian factions and women-on-women violence in her native Brazil, director da Silveira’s film oscillates between satire and horror as it deep dives into the world of so-called piety, arguing that if women have been conditioned by the patriarchy to control each other, it’s only women who can also save each other.