synopsis
Despite forming a natural part of the life of half the world’s population, menstruation is still a taboo in many countries. The film
A Bloody Taboo shows just how stigmatized it is in Japan. The intimate testimonies of a large sample of women reveal that the unwillingness of the patriarchal society to lead an open dialogue about the monthly menstruation is just a symptom of a bigger problem that is gender discrimination.
biography
Sybilla Patrizia is an Austrian photographer and filmmaker. At the centre of her focus are current political, social, and cultural topics. Her works, exhibited in galleries all over the world, capture the umbrella revolution in Hong Kong, the oppression of the Tibetan diaspora in the north of India or the cult of cuteness in Japanese mainstream culture.
more about film
| director: | Sybilla Patrizia |
| producer: | Sybilla Patrizia, Marina Yoshimura |
| photography: | Sybilla Patrizia |
| editing: | Sybilla Patrizia |
| music: | Nobuyoshi Kobayashi |
| sound: | Jayce Ong |
Film at festival
| premiere type: | European Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2021 |
| section: | Short Joy |
| language: | Japanese |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Sybilla Patrizia |
| original title: | 生理というタブー |
| country: | Japan, Austria |
| year: | 2021 |
| running time: | 14 min. |
