Maria Plus One, Plus One You're my Number One
2005, 02:34 minutes, colour, French, English
TAPECODE 971.07
This video is part of larger project entitled Maria Plus One that lasted from 2005 to 2008. This series of photographs, videos, live performances and interventions depicted the artist enacting various romantic rituals with a life size doll. Plus One You’re My Number One presents a series of still images of the artist engaging in activities with her male doll named Plus One. The upbeat tone and lyrics of the song pretend to celebrate the joy created through this uncanny romance between a woman and an inanimate object. Although this project is humorous and appears to be saccharine sweet and light hearted at first glance, it raises important questions about loneliness, otherness, conformity, gender roles and the institutions of love and marriage.
Rental and Sales
Single Screening Rental | $90.00 |
Educational Purchase DVD (Bluray +$15) | $260.00 |
5 Year Educational Streaming License, Digital File with DVD Circulation Copy | $550.00 |
Gallery Exhibition and Installation, complete Media Request form for quote | |
Institutional Archival Acquisition, complete Media Request form for quote |
Curators and programmers, please contact distribution@vtape.org to receive a login and password to preview Vtape titles online.
Screening and exhibition rentals and archival acquisitions include public performance rights; educational purchases or licenses include rights for classroom screenings and library circulation. When placing an order the customer agrees to our general online terms and conditions. Payment (or a purchase order number) and a signed licensing agreement must be received before media can be shipped to the client.