Kathleen Laughlin

In today’s youth-oriented society, the experience and knowledge of older women is typically unheralded and neglected. Countering these ideas is Suzanne Lacy’s Whisper, The Waves, The Wind—a performance evoking and reinforcing the strong spiritual and physical beauty of older women. Lacy says, “They reminded me of the place where the ocean meets shoreline. Their bodies were growing older, wrinkled. But what I saw was the rock in them; solid, with the presence of the years washing over them.” This tape is a document of that performance.

A "ballet for washing machines."

Combines animation and live-action in a young woman’s personal reverie on being female. With a polyphonic voice track, it parallels the flow of her unconscious with the movement of the cycles of nature.

Local Minneapolis based filmmaker Kathleen Laughlin's short experimental film follows her sister on a spirited excursion through a tall August cornfield about to be harvested.

In today’s youth-oriented society, the experience and knowledge of older women is typically unheralded and neglected. Countering these ideas is Suzanne Lacy’s Whisper, The Waves, The Wind—a performance evoking and reinforcing the strong spiritual and physical beauty of older women. Lacy says, “They reminded me of the place where the ocean meets shoreline. Their bodies were growing older, wrinkled. But what I saw was the rock in them; solid, with the presence of the years washing over them.” This tape is a document of that performance.

A "ballet for washing machines."

Combines animation and live-action in a young woman’s personal reverie on being female. With a polyphonic voice track, it parallels the flow of her unconscious with the movement of the cycles of nature.

Local Minneapolis based filmmaker Kathleen Laughlin's short experimental film follows her sister on a spirited excursion through a tall August cornfield about to be harvested.