Marked (Working Title) (360G-Wellcome-209507_Z_17_Z)

£198,900

Marked, will be an experimental art film, an adult-oriented cartoon hoping to create a greater awareness and acceptance of the psychological impact of disfigurement, post-surgical trauma: with particular reference to the wearing of mastectomy tattoos by people with breast cancer. Featuring Alicia, who, after undergoing mastectomy surgery, declines breast reconstruction but instead decorated her scars with a tattoo. The fantastical, open-ended nature of cartoon animation itself allows Alicia to tell her story, to represent her very real, extreme, exaggerated states of being. Marked will ask/raise various complex questions and ideas about disfigurement body-image, symmetry, and subsequent post-surgical trauma: What role does symmetry play in our physical and psychological understanding of ourselves? What are the boundaries of both physical and psychological loss? What does it mean to live as a woman with a tattoo where her breasts once were? What happens to our identity/bodies after surgery? The visual manifestations of myths, folktales, personal narratives, ideas, desires and/or histories, the locations of the tattoos, the act of tattooing and the tattoos themselves are powerful responses to disfigurement that mark the sites of trauma, while marking the survival of breast cancer.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 198900
Applicant Surname Baseman
Approval Committee Public Engagement Fund (Large Awards) Committee
Award Date 2017-09-07T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2016/17
Grant Programme: Title Public Engagement Fund Large
Internal ID 209507/Z/17/Z
Lead Applicant Mr Jordan Baseman
Partnership Value 198900
Planned Dates: End Date 2021-01-31T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2017-12-15T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London