Intercourse With... (movie)

Intercourse With... (movie)

  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Hannah Wilke
  • Release date: 1/1/1978
  • Run time: 27 min.

Movie description

In this haunting performance, Wilke conflates the private and the public as autobiographical theater. The audience "eavesdrops" on a series of phone messages intended for Wilke, recorded from her answering machine. This voice-over litany of messages becomes an intimate if one-sided narrative of Wilke's life, a diary of personal and professional relationships — family, lovers, friends, colleagues — that is oddly elegiac. Wilke strips to reveal that her body is covered with the names of the individuals we have heard speaking; she then methodically removes the names until all traces have disappeared.