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Riddles of the Sphinx
- Title
- Riddles of the Sphinx [motion picture] / British Film Institute.
- Publication
- New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1977.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 3789 R | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 3789 R | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 3789 R | Offsite |
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- Description
- 3 film reels (92 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
- Summary
- The film weaves episodes from a woman's life with narration and music, joining a naturalistic story with an avant-garde form. The story of Oedipus and the Sphinx is juxtaposed with the contemporary fable and used as a metaphor for the rise of the patriarchy and displacement of the matriarchy. The film centers on the situation of Louise, a middle-class mother obsessively involved with her four-year-old daughter. The soundtrack is devoted to her rhyming, circular stream of consciousness. Louise's oblique progress with motherhood is depicted in a series of 360-degree panning shots. The effect is to rotate the boundaries of her world in a kind of slow delirium. (Circulates)
- Subjects
- Credits (note)
- Directors, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen.
- Performer (note)
- Dinah Stabb.
- Title
- Riddles of the Sphinx [motion picture] / British Film Institute.
- Imprint
- New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1977.
- Credits
- Directors, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen.
- Cast
- Dinah Stabb.
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- Added Author
- Mulvey, Laura.Wollen, Peter.British Film Institute.
- Branch Call Number
- M16 3789 R