girls on film
This week's
New Yorker runs a short notice about Margot Roth, a first-time filmmaker who set out to make
documentary showing "real" nude women, with all of their not-so-perfect parts
exposed (the
New Yorker describes her as the "Bob Guccione of bulgy everywomen"). When Roth shot the film — now called
Fifty Nude Women: A Musical Montage — in 2001, the set was bursting with "girl-bonded giddiness." Some of the participants gathered to watch the film recently, and the reaction seemed a little more subdued. "'I'm thinner now," Heather Allison, a 30-year-old university administrator said, as a shot of her as an odalisque revealed an upper-abdomen paunch. 'I was still coming off my women's-college weight gain." I can understand Allison's need to tell people she's thinner in real life — because that's
exactly how I felt after Tracie and I did the
American Apparel video.
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