| Description | Content Warning: Please note, this series contains material featuring pornographic, sexual, and erotic imagery. Please contact us at archive-enquiries@arts.ac.uk if you require any reasonable adjustments that could make accessing this material easier for you.
This series comprises documents relating to Kaplan’s short film The Story of I (1997), an experimental surrealist work in which a woman (played by Kristina Page and Jo Ann Kaplan), seated naked in a bath, reads Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye, giving rise to fantasies and sexually explicit imagery in the form of photo-montage, animation and film sequences. The film features music by Annabelle Pangborn. Further details of the film are as follows: a 23-minute running time, shot on 16mm and Super 8 film and videotape, produced in association with the Arts Council of England and the London Production Fund. Produced, directed and edited by Jo Ann Kaplan. Cinematogrpahy by Margaret Jailler. Art Direction by Jim Clancey.
The film was screened at festivals worldwide, including Rotterdam, Geneva, Washington, DC, and New York City, as well as at the Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, and was broadcast on ARTE television in France and Germany. This project is extensively documented, with material covering all stages of production, from early scripts and research through to production files, post-production masters, and correspondence relating to distribution and rights. |