The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (2015)

A video essay exploring the frequency and meaning of that particular prop in a wide variety of Sirk movies Is it a device that traps and keeps women in an artificial world with a limited point of view Or is it a gateway to the past and the future and a distorted but nevertheless real vision of the roles that woman are forced to play in society Its an exploration of the texts and subtexts of commercial films and the subterranean and complicated ways that they affect us and can be read