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Documentary short about challenging norms and redefining beauty. ON BEAUTY follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew frustrated with having to work within the...
What do popular television makeover programmes tell us about about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? Based on Katherine Sender’s book The Makeover the film examines this question against...
Video. Performance artist ORLAN is joined by scientist and innovator Rachel Armstrong at the Science Gallery, Dublin for a conversation about the future of the human body. The collision of surgery and art...
BIRTHMARKINGS is a documentary about how giving birth transforms women’s bodies. The film reframes and destabilises the observer’s reaction to the changes in a woman’s body after she has given birth...
One can hardly come closer to stereotypes than talking about Jewish noses and Jewish mothers. In My Nose Gayle Kirschenbaum proves that there is still room for an original take on both subjects. Her witty...
This BBC education film is about a North London clininc where around thirty severely underweight children are undergoing treatment for anorexia. Made using the children’s own video diaries and...
Two programmes dealing with specific social and ethical aspects of business, made in a collaboration between the BBC’s MONEY PROGRAMME and the Open University’s Open Business School.
Fusing anthropology, politics, neuro-biology, archaeology and religion, this series of five programmes looks at how and why human beings create images and tells the epic story of how the images that we...
Presented by two teenage narrators, this DVD is a good introduction to the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia. Teenagers who have overcome their own eating disorders speak about their experiences. The...
Looks at the condition called body dysmorphia whereby a otherwise completely healthy person wants to have a limb amputated. Numbers of sufferers are growing and demanding treatment. The problem affects both...
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