Liz Crow: Frida Kahlo's Corset

Liz Crow is a published writer and artist working with film and video. The work she creates is about portraying humanity, setting the record straight, switching perspectives and triggering change. It is the potential for communicating new ways of thinking and the possibilities of contributing to change that draw her to film and television. Crow was given the Picture This Production Award in 2000 to realise Frida Kahlo’s Corset. Funded by the South West Media Development Agency and HTV.

Frida Kahlo’s Corset is a short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets because of impairment. Drawing on Kahlo’s own words and characteristically bold painting style the film refutes the picture of Kahlo’s life as one of tragedy and suffering.

The film has been shown at 6th Brief Encounters short film festival, Watershed; Transitions Conference and Disability Arts film festival, Jackson’s Lane, London; British Federation of Film Societies, Gloucester Arts Centre; Stratford Picture House Disability Film Festival 2001; 3rd DFF-Lifting the Lid-The Lux Centre; Bristol Community Festival; 4th Disability Film Festival – NFT, London; Picture this...Film Festival, Calgary, Canada (Honourable Mention >10 drama/performance: filmmaker with a disability); Arnolfini, Bristol screened the film prior to the screening of the feature film Frida, 26-31 July 2003; Projections International Disability Film Festival, Toronto, 2004.