Free screening as part of FilmScene's Filmmaker Spotlight series

The Three-Dimensional Glass Box questions the representation of violence within established cinema history and the methodologies filmmakers have irresponsibly used to achieve those images. From Hitchcock’s infamous line, “Torture the woman!” to Kubrick’s mistreatment of Shelley Duvall in The Shining (1980), women have been trapped into constricting roles via monstrous techniques to produce a desired performance. This film confronts damaging representation through performances of entrapment inside the film medium and reperformance of praised images from cinema’s birth – whether that be through presumed gender roles or aestheticized violence onscreen. Furthermore, reperformance is used within the film to open a dialogue about how representation can often be entrapping of individuals who are forced into claustrophobic-boxes of representation and the clear boundaries of these boxes to which we view them.