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Privilege

4.7 103 mins Documentary   1990
Director(s): Yvonne Rainer

Release Date: 26 Wed, Sep 1990

Privilege is an intelligently conceived, boldly anarchic, and wickedly insightful exposition on the culturally ingrained and socially divisive malaise of isms that artificially define and characterize empowerment in contemporary society: ageism, sexism, economic elitism, and racism. Yvonne Rainer conveys texture through the intercutting of archival footage, video, and film - as well as compositional layering through the film-within-a-film structure, elliptical (and self-referential) fusion of past and present, and the filmmaker's idiosyncratic penchant for superimposed typed text.

Casts of Privilege

Blaire Baron

as Brenda

Gabrielle Made

as Digna

Novella Nelson

as Yvonne Washington

Alice Spivak

as Jenny

Yvonne Rainer

as Helen Caldicott

Rico Elias

as Carlos

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