Keep Your Laws off My Body(1989)

movie - first aired/released 1989-01-01 - 14 min

Directed by Catherine Gund, Zoe Leonard

Intimate scenes of gentle sexuality and domesticity set to the mechanical cadence of a projector (evoking a feeling somewhere between the repetitive labour of a sewing machine and violence of a machine gun) are juxtaposed with images of police and sirens to highlight the alarming intrusion of America’s laws on queer people and women’s bodies in healthcare, sexual expression, and desire.