Tina Keane
2021Hey Mack
Tina Keane
New York trucks, both menacing and toy-like, over feminist performance group Disband in songs of political and environmental declamation. ‘The film works on a juxtaposition between what we think is very macho and these women who, through their songs and the way they sing them, getting louder and louder, manage to dominate the image’ - Tina Keane.
Hey Mack
Deviant Beauty
Tina Keane
‘An androgynous woman’s surreal journey through the carnivalesque. Deviant Beauty embodies spectator, erotica, sexuality, death and decay. It questions our expectations of, and pleasure in, the image, against the death and emptiness that lies beneath the alluring surface.’
Deviant Beauty
Faded Wallpaper
Tina Keane
Based loosely on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ‘Faded Wallpaper’ is concerned with visual perception, madness and the search for identity. A woman, isolated within a room, becomes obsessed with the wallpaper surrounding her, seeing within its faded patterns strange images – at times pleasurable and seductive, at times threatening and dangerous. As these images become more insistent she begins to strip the wallpaper away in an attempt either to banish the images or get to their source. Words and sounds run through her head as she peels away the layers, questioning her own self-image, her imagination and her sanity. No solutions are given, only more questions… T.K.
Faded Wallpaper
In Our Hands, Greenham
Tina Keane
'In Our Hands, Greenham" uses video to convey women's struggle against nuclear weapons. The soundtrack is a collage of interviews, songs and music, and the images are of actions at Greenham Common, filtered through the outline of a woman's hands.
In Our Hands, Greenham
Shadow of a Journey
Tina Keane
"Shadow of a Journey begins, visually, with a movement of watery images flickering across the screen; and meanwhile, on the sound track, a woman sings a Gaelic song. Shadows on the sunlit water are identifiable as those of a ship"s from the ferry whose passage is causing the water to churn across the picture. ... The apparent situation is the familiar one of a journey during which the passing scene is registered but only partially engages the thoughts." - LUX
Shadow of a Journey
