Mermaids and Sirens: On the Proliferation of Mermaids in Times of Shipwreck
Over the past decade, numerous mermaid schools have opened in the United States, Australia and Asia, teaching people how to turn into merfolk. Could merpeople today announce the collapse of capitalism as they heralded the shipwrecks of the past? Oscillating between an interview with a professional mermaid and merpeople tutorials that reinvent the chimera, Suzanne Husky’s film revisits the event of the shipwreck and the figure of the mermaid as fantasies of the failure of the commercial world, transformed into popular culture.
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Mermaids and Sirens: On the Proliferation of Mermaids in Times of Shipwreck
- Overview
- Crew
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Status
Released
Release Date
Mar 19, 2017
Runtime
0h 26m
User Score
70%
Original Title
Sirène et Sirènes: Sur la Prolifération des Sirènes en Temps de Naufrage
Production Companies
Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière
Director
Suzanne Husky
Description
Over the past decade, numerous mermaid schools have opened in the United States, Australia and Asia, teaching people how to turn into merfolk. Could merpeople today announce the collapse of capitalism as they heralded the shipwrecks of the past? Oscillating between an interview with a professional mermaid and merpeople tutorials that reinvent the chimera, Suzanne Husky’s film revisits the event of the shipwreck and the figure of the mermaid as fantasies of the failure of the commercial world, transformed into popular culture.
