BUTTER BODY POLITIC

Skills: BUTTER BODY POLITIC, FILM & VIDEO, PERFORMANCE

BUTTER BODY POLITIC
2017
40:27 mins

Written, directed, and edited by Jessica Posner
Original Score by Joanna Spitzner
Featuring Jessica Posner, David Geer, Sayeh Echo, and a herd of pregnant dairy cows
Director of Photography is Stefanie Noble

BUTTER BODY POLITIC (2017) is Jessica Posner’s first performance film. In this experimental film, Posner frames butter as a metaphor for the body politic, and offers alternative modes for being with ourselves and each other in times of political precarity. In the Butter Body Politic, fat is resilient salve.

Please attribute, and contact at jess@jessicaposner.com for institutional screenings.

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and the County of Onondaga through the Tier Three Project Support Program. These programs are administered by CNY Arts.

Jessica Posner, 2017 (c)