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Knit One, Stab Two

10min  |  English  |  Documentary

In this film I ask, what happens when the woman knits in a horror film? What might the representation of knitting tell us about social and cultural expectations around gender, genre and age? I then draw on the potential for videographic work to disrupt stereotyped representations of aging women across over a century of horror cinema.
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Synopsis

In this film I ask, what happens when the woman knits in a horror film? What might the representation of knitting tell us about social and cultural expectations around gender, genre and age? I then draw on the potential for videographic work to disrupt stereotyped representations of aging women across over a century of horror cinema.

Filmmaker Bio

Alison Peirse

Alison Peirse

Director, Writer

Alison Peirse is a multi-award winning horror writer and filmmaker. Her fourth book, Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre has won awards around the world and was the subject of a screening series at the Museum of Modern Art in August 2022.

Credits

director: Alison Peirse

writer: Alison Peirse

cast: (Narrator) Tanya Vital

Composer: _Heavyleg