Primal Scenes

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Over grainy, black and white images of a woman giving birth, Montano reads the story of a nun’s sexual self-discovery—recounting Sister Joan’s growing awareness of her body’s sensuousness and sexuality. Primal Scenes is an excellent example of women’s erotica, focusing on a woman’s experience of her body as both sexually powerful and deeply mysterious. Montano uses stirring images of women acting in the rather traditional roles of nun and mother, yet she recasts these roles and demonstrates, from a woman’s point of view, the possibility of claiming a fully-realized sexual intensity for women.

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Year
1980
Runtime
10m
Language
EN
🎬 Linda Mary Montano
sexuality feminism human body performance art

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Primal Scenes has a runtime of 10m ( and 10 minutes).
Primal Scenes was directed by Linda Mary Montano and released in 1980.

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