Country: UK
Year: 1993
Duration: 17'


A short film in which a woman opens and swallows oysters and removes small stones from her body which have been washed there by the sea. These sequences are intercut with an older woman who assembles and prepares to play a tenor saxophone. "When an oyster is opened it is destroyed".

Biography

film director

Jayne Parker

Born in 1957, Jayne Parker studied at Mansfield College of Art, at Canterbury College of Art and the Slade School of Art HDFA. Currently teaching at the Goldsmiths College of Art and the Slade School of Art. Among her works: Free Show (1979), I Cat (1980), RX Recipe (1980), I Dish (1982), Snig (1982), Almost Out (1984), En Route (1986), The Cat and the Woman (1987), K (1989) and The Pool (1991).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, sceneggiatura e Editor: Jayne Parker.
Director of photography: Belinda Parson.
Music: Kathy Stobart.
Sound: Noski Deville.
Cast: Kathy Stobart, Jayne Parker.
Produzione e Italian distribution: British Film Institute, 29 Rathbone Street, London W1P 1AG, tel. +44-71-6365587, fax +44-71-5809456, in associazione con Channel Four Television.
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