Bitter Strength: Sadistic Response Version
- Azian Nurudin |
- 1992 |
- 2.5 minutes |
- B&W |
- SOUND
Rental Format(s): Digital File
A response to those who think S/M is part of violence against women. Set against the backdrop of pixelated PXL2000 S/M imagery and industrial soundscape, a spoken word voice-over exhorts women to resist their assailants, and at the same time a certain eroticism is prevalent in the imagery.
Producer-Director-Editor-Sound-Voice: Azian Nurudin
Performers: Michelle Handelman, Ashley Hans Scheirl (Angela Hans Scheirl)
This piece was shot on a PXL 2000 toy camcorder by Fisher Price and edited on VHS
Selected Screenings and Exhibitions:
Abject Art - Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993
LGBTQ film festivals - Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco
The New Festival, New York
New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival
Asian American Video Festival, New York
Women and Violence at The LAB, San Francisco

