Purple Lipstick is a meditative first person narrative intended to address our faith in the myths surrounding intimacy and conjugality. A juxtaposition of the wife’s disembodied voice with the poem’s vivid, absurdist language conveys her isolation while invoking an excruciating tension.

Purple Lipstick is not an exposé or a documentary, but rather a potent rendering of the insidious nature of domestic violence, a visceral collage of an emotional maelstrom.

TFT: 6 minutes

Heather Haley's videopoem, Dying For the Pleasure, premiered at Pacific Cinémathèque in 2003. This year the film screened at the International ArtExpo in Milan, Italy.

It will also be shown at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Kalingrad, Russia and at Illume: An Alchemy of Text and Image on Saturday, 17 September, from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM at the Gene Siskel Film Center, on North State Street in Chicago's Loop district.

It is presented here in Quicktime format. The full frame version is available for public broadcast.

Writer: Heather Haley
Actress: Dena Ashbaugh
Exec. Producer: Shawn Angelski
Director: Katrin Bowen
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