Milwaukee, WI (Milwaukee Premiere)
Running Time: 2 minutes
Experimental/Feminist Cinema
Experimental/Feminist Cinema
Sunday Sept 8th, 3pm
Avalon Atmospheric Theater
2473 S Kinnickinnic Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53207
A mosaic of two previous films from the filmmaker, Normal Porn for Normal People (2020) & [I Love You Very Much] (2023); this piece inspects the zodiac of abusive patterns in media, culture, and interpersonal relationships with a more acute and candid critique than in her earlier gender-focused works.
Segments of famous love letters by Orson Wells, James Joyce, & Johnny Cash are read by serial killers, family annihilators, and perpetrators of femicide. Violent imagery loops the love letters as a cinematic doppelgänger for real-world cycles of abuse. Vintage vignettes of romance and feminist revenge pop spark through the spiraling brutality in an attempt to break the abuse syndrome.
[I Love You Very Much Redux] is aware of its own commentary, using the words of prominent serial killers to dispel any illusion to the conscious complacency of our cultures which unremittently ignore gender-based violence. Two ironies remain; the utilization of Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer to communicate this crucial feminist message, and the systems that speak of liberation and change while continuing to conceal and silence survivors of abuse.
Amber Rose has been a specialized Intimacy Coordinator since 2017 with a focus in queer cinema, the horror genre, and scenes that deal with elements of violence. He holds a BFA in Film and an educational background in Psychology, Criminology, Speech, and Language which provide the foundational tools to approach these specific types of intimate scenes with professionalism, knowledge, and sensitivity. Being a queer, femme presenting, bigender artist also informs her ability to approach queer intimacy with experience and integrity. An early background in ballet and acting allows her to have a deep understanding for choreography, movement, and the actor’s experience.
Amber Rose has been editing since 2020, having developed her own style of editing that he has coined, “choreographical editing”. This editing style is inspired by rhythmic editing and smash cuts, taking a lot from her background in movement and dance and approaching the edit in a way as if it is a piece of music to be composed. Whether music is involved or not, the movement within the scene, the movement of the camera, the breaths or pauses in dialogue, the sounds within the scene, the sounds added in post, all influence the cut in choreographical editing.
Amber Rose is also the Founder, Festival Director, and Lead Programmer of Milwaukee Illuminate Film Festival (miff.). An underground, intersectional film festival which highlights the work of underrepresented voices in film, video, and the cinematic arts. Our aim with miff. is not only to screen the work of marginalized artists, whose work is too often overlooked, but to also create a space for filmmakers who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, People of Color, Jewish, femme, fat, neurodivergent, disabled, as well as survivors of sexual violence where they are able to build community and network in a safe and supportive atmosphere.
Director's Statement:
I wanted to make a 90 second film that was short and sharp both in its technical application and in its social critique. Taking two of my previous sampled works, Normal Porn for Normal People (2020) and [I Love You Very Much] (2023), I took the parts from each that matched my message and edited them together in a way that further fit my commentary.
Normal Porn for Normal People (2020) deals primarily with the ways in which violence is fetishized and romanticised in all forms of media from news media to cinema, yet nudity and sexuality are demonised and blamed for violence.
[I Love You Very Much] (2023) focuses in on the fabrication of love and romance within heteronormative relationships, and the modes that these fabrications are broadcast via media and cinema.
In making [I Love You Very Much Redux] I wanted to combine the elements of fetishized violence and normalized gender-based violence to create a film puts clear emphasis on the escalating violence perpetrated against women, femmes, and queer people in our global landscape and socio-cultural spheres.
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