The horror in SAFE (1995) | Video Essay

Is the air we breathe contaminated?
When you no longer function in society, will I be treated as an outcast?
Can I ever be truly "safe"?
Video essay on the many horrors in Todd Haynes‘ environmentally-conscious movie which functions as a truly terrifying feminist genre film.
Note:
The use of the term mise-en-scène may be misleading here. I refer specifically to the framing of potentially “contaminated spaces”: apartments, doctor's offices, cars etc., preferrably in wide shots.
Mise-en-scène can be a very general term for the “direction of a scene”.
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Safe, 1995
directed by Todd Haynes
DoP: Alex Nepomniaschy
05/16/2021