
2018
Design Speculation, Animation, Film Analysis
Desperate Times
call for Desperate Pleasures
Altering the status quo of female characters from the Ghost in the Shell franchise by hyper-sexualizing characteristics of the female embodiment to the point of desensitization.
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Research
A research process following up to the days of Co-Equal. This research speculates the possibilities of hyper-sexualization of female characters from a cyberpunk movie, in hopes of featuring an alternative representation for gender equality in movie culture.
It utilizes a reverse method of subverting the male gaze by displaying nudity in the proposed mediums. It challenges the existing states of patriarchal viewership by accepting and working with the idea of a sexualized object, such extremities hopes to desensitizes the male audience.