Privilege (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 filmwithinafilm structure elliptical and selfreferential fusion of past and present and the filmmakers idiosyncratic penchant for superimposed typed text