A hybrid critical-creative rumination on femininity, the grotesque, and unwatchable cinema. This book is about excess, and stages its own excess. 22 pages. Tape-bound. Two-layer letterpressed cover.

Our cultural understanding of womanhood is tied up in the problematics of borders and boundaries – the socially constructed demarcations that define us. WETLANDS crosses many of these lines, gleefully, situating it among a subset of films that are often called “transgressive.” In some ways, cinema has redefined and rearticulated our relationship to such borders. But when it comes to the boundaries that perpetuate our current systems of structural and social power – for example, the containment of women’s bodies by men – breaking apart the ideological foundation takes more force. This is the motivating force behind transgressive cinema: to shock, to scandalize, to violate our most basic morals and values. It wants us to feel the outrage. To confront it. And then, to ask ourselves whose outrage it really is.