Filmmaker Jesse Epstein talks about her short film, 34x25x36, which goes inside a mannequin factory to look at how to create an "ideal" of a woman's body — in plastic. Epstein talks about body image in our culture, and whether we really need to have an idea of the "perfect" body.
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Very nice documentary, thank you. However, from the interview with maker Jesse Epstein, i sense she has not seen the episode "More Human than Human" of Nigel Spivey's series "How Art Made the World" (See http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/episodes/human/), where he especially addresses this sculpting of better-than-nature subjects, in depth.
by Jerome Potts from Austin, Texas
August 20, 2009, 12:44 AM