Jennifer Montgomery provides an inside look of the territorial minds of young girls in her provocative film "Age 12: Love with a Little L". Montgomery's description of the film is "...depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-year old girl as the platform for a meditation on forbidden desire,transgression, and Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of identity formation. Raw adolescent memories counterpoint staged scenes, exploring mechanisms of power and submission".
Throughout the film, the audience is exposed to young women "marking" their territory, whether it is the ground or a human being by urination. In one scene, a young girl pulls down her underwear and urinates in front of the camera, and then calmly pulls her underwear back up and walks away. On top of this being a provocative scene, it shows how young women are territorial (sort of like animals marking their territory) and also explores the unspoken question of why it is acceptable in our society for men to make such gestures but for women it is considered disturbing.
Montgomery continually forces her audience to examine how they have been molded by society's way of viewing women with scenes such as a young women acting out animalistic expressions (growling, pointing ears forward, ect.) as they mimic territorial acts. "Age 12: Love with a Little L" will definitely challenge your perspective on sexual roles in modern society.
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