I Was a Teenage Serial Killer + A Family Finds Entertainment

Traditional gender roles and behaviours are challenged in two different, yet equally urgent moving image works.

I Was a Teenage Serial Killer

  • Director

    Sarah Jacobson

  • USA 1993. 27min

  • Digital

 

+ A Family Finds Entertainment

  • Director

    Ryan Trecartin

  • USA 2004. 41min

  • Digital

High octane and embracing excess, Sarah Jacobson’s subversive, no-budget, underground 1990s 16mm film sees lead character Mary commit murder, over-and-over, in her brutal bid to confront the patriarchy. Ryan Trecartin established himself as an important video artist with his hyperactive, animalistic yet brilliantly edited 2004 video, in which he plays the disturbed Skippy, who locks himself in the bathroom during a party.