Libertys Booty (1980)

Libertys Booty is an investigation into prositution from a female perspective under a late capitalist economy The film is also a document and a celebration of a New York subculture in the late seventies With a dense mix of real testimonies verité footage and acted out scenarios this film examines power relations and the commodification of the body The film alludes to a growing globalisation with its reference to a MacDonalds strike in Dublin and imagery of Pope Pauls visit to Ireland in 1979 which in retrospect is seen as marking a final attempt to halt the transformation of Irish society