Liberty’s Booty

1980
Country: USA
Duration: 47 mins
|36 Seconds
Colour,
Sound: sound
Ratio: 4:3
Available Format/s: HD Digital file
Original Format: 16mm film

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Liberty’s Booty is an investigation into prositution from a female perspective under a late capitalist economy. The film is also a document and a celebration of a New York subculture in the late seventies. With a dense mix of real testimonies, verité footage and acted out scenarios, this film examines power relations and the commodification of the body. The film alludes to a growing globalisation with its reference to a MacDonalds strike in Dublin and imagery of Pope Paul’s visit to Ireland in 1979 which in retrospect, is seen as marking a final attempt to halt the transformation of Irish society.

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