Abscess is an experimental video describing post-surgical complications of a breast reduction surgery. The inside and outside, opening and closing and audio and visual of a body in transition trying to heal accepts itself as layered layers of everything it contains. When skin has been broken the mess of so many different stories, truths, thoughts and shapes takes the place of the body's skin. The compilation of found medical footage, personal narratives, and images of the underground, under water and inside the cellular body creates a sense of being contained and not contained at once; just as an abscess causes skin to open and close as it tries to push itself out of the body. This process, both viscerally and through art asks questions about feeling at home in one's body and what it means to change one's body.
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by . Subclip, Winter 2001, no. 7.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2001.