Aug 262010
That Canadian filmmaker who replaced his prosthetic eye with a digital video camera keeps doing crazy stuff and I keep blogging about it. Now he’s on a quest to find a female amputee who would be willing to be fitted with a paintgun prosthetic. Him artistic vision is likely inspired by the Tarantino/Rodriguez film Grindhouse, which featured a comely woman with a machine gun as a prosthetic for her missing leg. I’m sure he’ll get more than a few applicants, although I’m not sure how one would hold auditions for something like this. It’s probably a tad exploitative, but I choose to view it as a deconstruction of traditional notions of disability and femininity.
And now I have a really strong urge to finally watch Grindhouse.
