Producer:   Cat Ashworth
Director:   Cat Ashworth
Length:   24 minutes
Production Format:   Hi-8 transferred to Betacam SP
Genre: Video Art
Completion Date:   1991

The Glass Wall , by Cat Ashworth, examines the act of "looking", specifically how Westerners look at Third World people and the power relationships implied in "the gaze". The Glass Wall questions the act of looking through a video camera at another culture and illustrates how the act of looking creates separation, desire, and the objectification of "the other". The Glass Wall was shot in India using a small format camera. The Glass Wall is a visual search for a new way of looking, a way of looking that is not based on power and control...a way of looking based on equality and exchange.

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VIDEO CLIPS

The Glass Wall (Quicktime, 7.5 MB)

SCREENINGS

1999: The Screening Room, WXXI series of independent films,   PBS broadcast

1997: SPE Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Houston, TX

1993: Free Speech TV, National Programming Service, Boulder, CO, (Leased for cable cast nationally)

1991: GAVA Film Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

1991: Video Spectrum, Channel L Working Group, New York, NY

1991: IV-TV,   Channel 29, Seattle, WA

1990: Visual Studies Workshop, Smart Art Café, Rochester, NY

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