LATIN LOVER from Francesca Fini on Vimeo.
“Latin Lover” tells the story of a man looking for a romantic evening alone with his girl. This seems to not only highlight the role of woman as abused, but also highlights stereotypes of men as abusers. The doll seems to represent the way that women are formed as objects of male gaze as well as showing ways in which women have been used and then “hung out to dry.” The repetitive duplication of the washing machine suggests that this act has taken place many times.
Francesca Fini is a director, author, digital artist, video artist, and a performer. Her digital artworks frequently make use of imagery relating to sex (blow-up sex dolls in particular) and gender construction. At 23, after a long stay in Los Angeles, she returned to her home in Italy where she wrote the novel “Thus Spake Mickey Mouse” where she tells the story of an Italian girl in Los Angeles. She produces television programs and documentaries for Italian television networks. She has been a passionate supporter of digital arts, becoming fascinated by the unison of networking and video for the dissemination of anything that is not “information.” In 1999, she produced some of the first Italian videos to be streamed over the internet. [1] She has documented performances by performance artists Kyrham and Julius Kaiser such as “Androgynòs,” which is also featured on this page.
[1] Francesca Fini. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
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