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- You are here: Home > CLEAN WITH ME (AFTER DARK)
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 19:00
Written by:
Gabrielle Stemmer
Editing:
Gabrielle Stemmer
Sound:
Emma Zimny
Producer:
Eliott Khayat
In her debut short, Gabrielle Stemmer explores one of the most bizarre trends on YouTube: the „Clean With Me” vlogs, made by an exclusively (white) female community that posts streams of themselves as they scrub their homes down. Beyond the facade of cleanliness, inspirational hum-drum, and bland muzak, the „good wife” image slips away to reveal a sense of suffocation, existential angst and deep depression. Using a desktop movie format that is faithful to the material that it recycles, CLEAN WITH ME (AFTER DARK), is a resourceful exploration of both the vlogging phenomenon and of the desperation of women entrapped by their gender roles.
Director:
After graduating with a master's degree in literature, Gabrielle Stemmer (b. 1991) studied editing at the prestigious La Fémis film school. She decided to use her bizarre addiction to Clean With Me videos to compose her graduation film, which is also her first film.
Contact:
Chloé Cavillier
Festivals, awards:
Jury Award - Clermont-Ferrand 2020 / Las Palmas 2020 / Vienna Shorts 2020 / Uppsala 2020 / RIDM 2020 / Young Jury Special Award - Concorto 2020
„On the one hand, these women are self-perpetuating unrealistic images of the perfect mother, and that is toxic. because it maintains an extremely oppressive culture. But on the other hand, it allows them to socialize daily on an unprecedented scale. Besides, it’s the first time that a woman can carry a speech without intermediaries and broadcast to millions of people. Potentially, it’s a great power. There are beginnings of reformulations of feminist principles or self-affirmation, of speaking out, which are positive. These bottles in the sea are available to everyone. And they did not exist 50 years ago.” (GABRIELLE STREMMER)