Movie Details
On Digital & Streaming:May 4th, 2022
Original Language:English
Madness Remixed on the Web:Official Website
Madness Remixed (2022)
StarringJosephine Baker
DirectorRhea Storr
11 minMay 4th, 2022
Plot
Madness Remixed explores the image of exoticism portrayed by Josephine Baker in a 1926 performance entitled The Madness of the Day in which Baker wore the infamous skirt, made of only bananas, that played into stereotypes of Black women as hyper-sexualised. Madness Remixed questions the conditions under which the skirt should be revived, considering that Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, and Diana Ross have all worn the same skirt more recently. 16mm film coated with latex and glitter – a fetishised medium in itself – is data-moshed with Baker in Siren of the Tropics (1927).
