Breaking The Frame

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Synopsis

Documentary. The work and life of American artist Carolee Schneemann, from her beginnings as a painter in the 1950s, through to her long career as a writer, filmmaker, performance artist, collage artist, and teacher.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of profanity and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent depictions of animal corpses in various states of decay - little detail
• Infrequent depictions of sexual activity and sexually suggestive scenes in an artistic context - breast and buttock nudity, some detail
• Frequent breast, buttock, and male and female genital nudity in non-sexual and artistic contexts
• Infrequent depictions of smoking and alcohol use in recreational contexts - no detail

Thematic elements

• The artistic temperament
• Feminism and art history
• Female sexuality and desire

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for nudity and sexual content in an artistic context

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