Privilege

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Yvonne Rainer
• Cast(s): Daniel Martin Berkey, Blaire Baron, Gabrielle Made, Novella Nelson, Alice Spivak See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 43min
• Award(s): Filmmakers Trophy 1991 (Won)
  Grand Jury Prize 1991 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel, John Candy: I Like Me
• Story:
  Privilege is an intelligently conceived, boldly anarchic, and wickedly insightful exposition on the culturally ingrained and socially divisive malaise of isms that artificially define and characterize empowerment in contemporary society: ageism, sexism, economic elitism, and racism. Yvonne Rainer conveys texture through the intercutting of archival footage, video, and film - as well as compositional layering through the film-within-a-film structure, elliptical (and self-referential) fusion of past and present, and the filmmaker's idiosyncratic penchant for superimposed typed text.
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