Structured in sonata form, 'Portrait of a Lady' uses audio collected from music, literature and the movies to examine the experience of being subject to the male gaze- from Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess to Marilyn Monroe to Kendrick Lamar.
	
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Jill Soloway lecture 2016
Femme Fatale, The Velvet Underground
Danny Devito as Louis in Taxi
Naive, The Kooks 
Sandra Dee as Gidget in Gidget
Ingenue, Death Cab for Cutie
Your Last Duchess, Robert Browning
Anna Nebtrevka singing Sempre Libera from La Traviata 
Unimpressed Man in Gilda 
Look at Me I’m Sandra Dee - Stockard Channing in Grease 
Lizzy Caplan as Janis Ian in Mean Girls
Poetic Justice, Kendrick Lamar 
Criminal, Fiona Apple
Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit 
Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemon in Some Like it Hot 
George “Foghorn” Winslow as Little Boy (to Marilyn Monroe) in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie sampled in Flawless by Beyonce
Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday 
You Don’t Own Me, Lesley Gore 
Ellen Pompeo as Meredith in Grey’s Anatomy 
Jimmy Stuart and Kim Novak in Hitchcock’s Vertigo 
Katharine Hepburn as Tracy in The Philadelphia Story 
The Girl All the Bad Guys Want, Bowling for Soup
Maneater, Nelly Furtado 
She’s a Lady, Tom Jones
Someday my Prince Will Come, Snow White 
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind
Blurred Lines, Robin Thicke
John Howard as George in The Philadelphia Story 
Just Hold on We’re Going Home, Drake
John MacArther sermon on Ephesians 
Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca 
Naomi Watts as Dawn in I Heart Huckabees 

Your Last Duchess by Catriona Stirling. Performed by Catriona Stirling, Jude Treliving, Jilly Luke, Daisy Bard, Georgia Wagstaff, Maddy Searle, Faith Waddel, Rosalind Peters, Rosie Lumley, Stellar Cheng, and Ellie Lowenthal

Portrait of a Lady

My great grandmother, Marion (GG)is 96 years old. Last year I recorded GG telling me some stories from her life. Here she is talking about misbehaving as a child at an all girls school in 1930s Edinburgh (very Murial Spark). The accompanying photo is us in 2014, showing off our similar brows.

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