Cake + Steak (2004)

Cake + Steak
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NR 20 minJan 1st, 2004The Suburban Trilogy PosterPart of The Suburban Trilogy
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Plot
Cake and Steak excavates ‘girl training’ in the legacy of home movies and post-war American suburban culture. Constructed as a series of achronological ‘chapters’ in which Edenic images of adolescent twirlers, basement parties, and ‘dress-up’ are challenged by a sound montage composed of horror movie music, old TV shows, laugh tracks, and machine noise of our modern Arcadias, Cake and Steak is conceived for single-screen and loop projection.

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:January 1st, 2004
Original Language:English

The Suburban Trilogy Movies

Filmmaker Abigail Child presents a feature-length project about girlhood and the immigrant dream, focusing on post World War II North American suburbs and between the war Europe, critically seen through the lens of gender, property and myths of nation. A rambunctious embrace, body to body, woman to woman, entrance to exitin-laws foregrounding the construction of cinematic meaning, the elusive nature of memory and desire, the hysteric familial arena of the social.