The Story of I (1997)

A woman sits alone in a bare white tiled bath, reading Georges Bataille’s ‘Story of the Eye.’ The bizarre events described in the text provoke a series of fantasies in which the room and its accoutrements become the stage and the woman the main player. As her dreams unfold in the liquid medium of the bath, she becomes the ‘eye’ of the story and her own body the object of its gaze. With a feminine hand, THE STORY OF I plucks Bataille’s central metaphor from its original context and re-invents its erotic vision from the inside out. The eye is the vagina, seen throught he blood, urine and tears, it looks at itself in a mirror.

If you liked The Story of I, you might also like…

92% match

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

1972

88% match

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

2022

85% match

The Dreamers

2003

77% match

The Portrait of a Lady

1996

77% match

Orlando

1992

75% match

Poor Things

2023

67% match

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

1966

67% match

Ruby Sparks

2012

60% match

Original Sin

2001

60% match

The Sessions

2012

60% match

Femme Fatale

2002

60% match

Leave Her to Heaven

1945

60% match

I Feel Pretty

2018

60% match

Split

2016

60% match

Somewhere in Time

1980

60% match

The Neon Demon

2016

60% match

Fatima

2020

60% match

Girl with a Pearl Earring

2003

60% match

Final Portrait

2017

60% match

Lee

2024