WHITE TRASH GIRL – THE DEVIL INSIDE [7:35 min]
Author: Jennifer Reeder – Art video added: 09.11.2004 – Language: english

FlatTV broadcast the video “White Trash Girl -The Devil Inside” by the American artist Jennifer Reeder.

Jennifer grow up in Ohio, but now live and work in Chicago.
I first watched this video in 1996, it was broadcasted by satellite over Europe form 3Sat (German Culture TV channel).
The video was nominated under “The International media art prize” Germany, and was screened on; PS1, Whitney, ZKM ++.

“White Trash Girl – The Devil Inside” is the first in a series of 3 videos. The Videos concerns the concept “White Trash Girl” and different forms of “suppression”.
Jennifer has the idea that: “It is necessary to include both; sex, class (in a Marxistic manner) and race, to understand and overcome suppression.

The Videos:

Nr.1 “The Devil Inside” (This video) (1996)
White Trash Girl get introduced, we get her unpleasant and scary history about her upbringing, and where she comes from.

Nr.2 “Natural Born Cocksuckers” (1996)
A video about “Scrappy” A woman with a “bad attitude”.
Scrappy takes no shit ! But… . a big corporate retail chain, attempt to turn her land into a parking lot… . Jennifer say about this video:  “This is my attempt to counter-capitalist story telling”.

Nr.3  “Law Of Desire” (1997)
A video about a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss, and a dead boyfriend.
Jennifer has a realistic understanding of suppression and power, witch I fully support.
Without both; class, sex, and race in your analyses, it is without meaning to talk about misrepresentation and suppression.
In the many films/videos Jennifer has made, she shows special interest in; Hierarchy, power, histories, youth, sexuality, boredom, sadness, and sex.

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