“Doll Face”: Art or Life?

October 29th, 2008

Here’s an incredible short film by Andy Huang about how hard we try to be something we’re not, and never will be. 4 minutes. Very worth your time, and safe for work.

http://www.dailymotion.com/videox1km3d

One question: I can’t figure out what’s happening at the end. Why is “she” trying so hard to get to the TV? What do you think is going on?

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  • 1. Platform Shoes&hellip  |  October 31st, 2008 at 12:14 am

    [...] “Doll Face”: Art or Life?(31 October 2008) Here8217s an incredible short film by Andy Huang about how hard we try to be something we8217re not, and never will be. 4 minutes. Very worth your tim… [...]

  • 2. hzinn  |  December 5th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    The television holds the image of what the “girl” wants to be.
    As the television moves away the “perfect image” is getting harder and harder to reach. In this video, literally, but metaphorically, the ideal is getting more unrealistic and more dangerous. At the end of the video, the image is so hard to reach she stretches herself to the end of her physical capacities. However she feels she needs the image so bad that she “breaks” herself to try and reach it— this is a metaphor for how the media’s unrealistic standards damages females’ physical, emotional, and cognitive well being.

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