form y separately published work icon Heaven single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Heaven
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An experimental short film that subverts the 'male gaze' through its objectification of men, Heaven zeros in on the surfing culture and, in particular, on several dozen good-looking, muscular surfers changing into or out of their swimming trunks.

Further Reference:

Natalya Lusty, 'Masculinity and Whiteness in Tracey Moffatt's Heaven'.

(http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/resources.ashx/events.transcripts/9/PDF/41E12FE901ADF3E55A17D72D8FF31490/Lusty.pdf)

Isabelle Aeby Papaloïzos, 'Heaven 1997' in New Media Encyclopedia.

(http://www.newmedia-art.org/cgi-bin/show-oeu.asp?ID=O0019361&lg=GBR)

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