Movie: Meat Joy

Top 3 Billed Cast

Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann

Leading Woman

Jacques Seiler
Jacques Seiler

Independent Man

Claudia Hutchins
Claudia Hutchins

Serving Woman

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    "Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, transparent plastic, ropes, brushes, paper scrap. Its propulsion is towards the ecstatic — shifting and turning among tenderness, wildness, precision, abandon; qualities that could at any moment be sensual, comic, joyous, repellent. Physical equivalences are enacted as a psychic imagistic stream, in which the layered elements mesh and gain intensity by the energy complement of the audience. The original performances became notorious and introduced a vision of the 'sacred erotic.' This video was converted from original film footage of three 1964 performances of Meat Joy at its first staged performance at the Festival de la Libre Expression, Paris, Dennison Hall, London, and Judson Church, New York City."

  • Release Date

    1964-05-29

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    6.6

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
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