Miranda Wilson: Marian at Large

Now and then lone female characters in cinema venture beyond the confines of the domestic realm in ways that disrupt public space, provoke unease and/or excite the thrill of non-compliance both within the world of the films in which they exist and for audiences. My research takes a creative practice and theoretical approach to explore instances of these transgressions and considers their bearing on the interrelationship between gender, screen representations of public space and screen space as public space. A cinematic act of gender transgression that resonates with strongly me as a Western feminist researcher and filmmaker is the journey taken by Marian Crane in Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). "Marian at Large" is an experimental mini-documentary in which screen space is disrupted and fragmented to create gaps and detours that circumvent the parameters of gendered constraint and posit a space in which Marian is able to radically alter her trajectory.