Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley: Heidi
Photo credit: Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Heidi, 1992
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
Sep 18, 2016
(Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley, US, 1992, 63 min)
Co-presented by Northwest Film Forum and the Henry Art Gallery
A collaborative film by artists Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley based on the children’s novel Heidi. The film brings together an elaborate set, a series of rubber figurines, and two backdrop paintings in order to question sexually repressive social hierarchies, the conventions of horror films, and mass media portrayals of family life.