Movie: Hands: The Life and Loves of the Gentler Sex

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    The use of human hands as characters in a dance inspired narrative are used to explore female experience and representation. By drawing upon experimental traditions found in international art, film, and photography movements of the 1920s, Simon transforms a simple melodramatic love story into an avant-garde feminist short film. (Jennifer Wild)

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    1927-01-01

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