Belladonna

The texts recited by the performers in Belladonna - filmmaker Jonas Mekas, and milliner Judith Solodkin - reveal cases of male violence.

The repetition of certain sequences amplifies the horror of the accounts, interspersed with paintings by Ida Applebroog, Beth B's mother. These declarations come from the testimonies of murderer Joel Steinberg, survivors of the experiments conducted by war criminal Josef Mengele, and studies of clinical cases taken from Freud's paper entitled  “A Child is Being Beaten” (1919). The intertwining of these different sources creates new narratives, while the original texts are recited in full at the end of the video.