Bodies and Desire: The Film's of Kika Thorne
Cantrills Filmnotes, 1993, no. 71/72, pp. 59-63
Kika Thorne works with the personal political, feminist, and avant-garde subjects as a super 8 filmmaker. Themes in her work are focused on desire, embodiment, gender, and active/passive binaries.
a feminist "camera-stylo whose irrepressible sympathy collapses the duality of subjects and objects, of camera and actor. Instead, the are drawn together in a weave of correspondence, each secured in a closed circuit of identification marked by domestic rituals of perception."
ITEM 1993.059 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Fashion (1990) – Kika Thorne
Division (1990) – Kika Thorne
You = Architectural (1991) – Kika Thorne
The Discovery of Canada (1991) – Kika Thorne