Misconception

Duration: :46

Year Published: 1977

Creator: M. Keller

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: A film devoted to re-examining our patriarchal society's mythologies about the experience of childbirth. Concentrates on the visual and aural essences of the mother's experience in an effort to critique the contradictions between male theories of what childbirth ought to be and the persistent phenomenon of women's alienated labor. The film reflects my perception of a man and a woman trying to be equal partners in an unequal situation. Note This film has been preserved by the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.