Mermaids and Sirens: On the Proliferation of Mermaids in Times of Shipwreck

Sirène et Sirènes: Sur la Prolifération des Sirènes en Temps de Naufrage2017

26m
March 19, 2017

Overview

Over the past decade, numerous mermaid schools have opened in the United States, Australia and Asia, teaching people how to turn into merfolk. Could merpeople today announce the collapse of capitalism as they heralded the shipwrecks of the past? Oscillating between an interview with a professional mermaid and merpeople tutorials that reinvent the chimera, Suzanne Husky’s film revisits the event of the shipwreck and the figure of the mermaid as fantasies of the failure of the commercial world, transformed into popular culture.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: March 19, 2017
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Production: Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded