Short film
Take Off
1972 · 10 min
A strange, quietly hypnotic ten minutes that turns a striptease into something unexpectedly transcendent and oddly hopeful.
- Directed by
- Gunvor Nelson
- Starring
- Ellion Ness
- Overview
- Ellion Ness, a thoroughly professional stripper, goes through her paces, bares her body, and then, astonishingly and literally, transcends it. While the film makes a forceful political statement on the image of woman and the true meaning of stripping, the intergalactic transcendence of its ending locates it firmly within the mainstream of joyous humanism and stubborn optimism.
- How it feels
- Earnest, whimsical, melancholic and satirical. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Identity, gender, freedom, art
- Content
- Strong sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Gunvor Nelson
- Starring
- Ellion Ness