Lorna Boschman

Lorna Boschman

Carrot River, Saskatchewan, Canada

Lorna Boschman is a Canadian queer media artist, film maker, curator, educator, editor, and camera operator working with themes such as sexual identity, body image, social justice, (dis)ability, cancer, abuse, health, and self-advocacy.

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Big Fat Slenderella 1993

Big Fat Slenderella looks at dieting from the fat person's point of view. In this work, excerpts from documentary interviews with fat people are juxtaposed with fat animals in captivity by the inventive use of wipe effects. Commercials for products like The Poodle Diet Recipe Collection satirize the mainstream obsession with dieting and their fear of gaining weight. Despite the conventional wisdom dished out by medical practitioners, studies have shown that dieting simply does not work for 95% of the population. Why are we still encouraged to diet? Could it be profits and the fact that if someone is dieting, that's all they have energy for? The fat experts in Slenderella are all fat themselves, and tell stories of the many diets and medically administered amphetamine "cures" they have tried over the years.
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Butch/Femme In Paradise 1988

Lorna Boschman’s Butch/Femme In Paradise follows the moves of a butch as she chases an elusive femme around the beautiful coast of British Columbia. Mixing fast-paced editing with slow and sensual long shots, the film walks to the beat of its own drum.
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True Inversions 1992

True Inversions creates its own dialectic on lesbian erotica while focusing on the differences between passions performed on and off camera, legal, social and personal forms of censorship, the motion of emotion and the eroticization of safe sex.