T A P E Collective Presents Good Vibes Only
Sunday, 16 January 2022
Image: Learning Tagalog with Kayla, Kayla Abuda Garlang, 2020
Rise and grind, rinse and repeat: a shrewd look at toxic positivity, routines, and the influencer economy. From the pressures of the unrealistically perfect makeup tutorial to the stifling monotony of positive thinking, this selection removes the shiny filters and fixes a blank stare toward all-smiles mentors, exposing the underbelly of the so-called self-care movement.
Learning Tagalog with Kayla
Kayla Abuda Garlang
4'
2020
USA
In this Tagalog lesson, Kayla will teach you conversational phrases, common expressions, and what it's like to feel sad and trapped inside your own home.
Perfect Cut
Elaisha Stokes
2'
2013
USA
At Mr. Jim's Beauty School, student Jaclyn Owens is about to cut hair for the first time. A lot is at stake. A short documentary about beauty and precision.
Breast Friends
Caitlin Young
6'
2019
United Kingdom
Breast Friends is a hysterical animation on Western beauty standards. London-based animator Caitlin Young treats us to a laugh out loud adventure of mean inner monologues, and that fundamental question: Am I a bad feminist?
How To Build Your Human
Jasmine de Silva
3'
2019
United Kingdom
How to Build Your Human is a video and photo series aiming to encapsulate a surreal world that is very much representative of our reality, where dolls build the ideal human beings, in a limitless and exhaustive cycle of reconstruction to achieve perfection.
Quality Control
Jasmine de Silva
2'
2018
United Kingdom
Quality Control is about the construction of the human body. The characters wear a uniform of green to match their sterile surrounding of an ambiguous canteen setting. One by one they collect their dinner trays and, in unison start to create the human face. With each one looking the same, this aims to portray the sense of a simulated and controlled world.
Rate Me
Fyzal Boulifa
17'
2015
United Kingdom
A portrait of teenage escort, 'Coco'.
My Morning Routine
Georgie Cowan-Turner
5'
2021
United Kingdom
Lured by images of ‘glass skin perfection’ a young woman enters the world of a morning makeup routine only to discover it is not as perfect as it first seems. An experimental and darkly ironic film which holds the mirror up to past and present toxic beauty standards and unattainable ideals of perfection.
Life Cycles
Ross Hogg
5'
2017
United Kingdom
Will we continue to let events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide to break the cycle?
La Reina
Manuel Abramovich
19'
2013
Argentina
Memi prepares to become queen of the carnival. Lost in a world of grown-ups and trapped in her routine, she is torn between the glamour of pageant and the social pressure to become a winner.
Fair and Lovely
Sabba S Elahi
4'
2019
USA
Notions of nationalized beauty standards haunt and privilege women around the globe, shaping social relations and individual psyches. My video is inspired by popular advertisements in South Asia for the cream "Fari & Lovely," which depicts the character who uses the cream as the one who meets his or her soulmate, gets the job, lands the promotion. The female character in my video layers the cream carefully and obsessively, white-washed, consumed by a desire to transform into a more "desirable skin."
Bacchus
Rikke Alma Krogshave
6'
2018
Denmark
Alex, a young woman bored with modern life, is lured by Bacchus into a colorful and mysterious world to explore her deepest desires.
Quick Fix
Annie Harmeston
4'
2021
United Kingdom
A short, but oh-so-sweet story of a user’s journey on the way to ultimate self-optimization. Quick Fix HQ, a glossy, contrived and overwhelmingly pink self-care sanctuary, welcomes the user to reach their full glowing potential at the click of a button...