Circuit Selects: Animation. Tessa Laird on Jill Kennedy, One Minute Enlightenment

Abstract

This very short essay describes the short film One Minute Enlightenment while bringing to bear relevant theoretical connections such as Jacques Derrida’s essay about how he felt when his cat saw him naked, “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)”, compared with Carolee Schneemann who filmed herself having sex with her human partner in front of her cat Kitch, Fuses, 1965. Kennedy’s film also recalls moments in Camille Henrot’s Grosse Fatigue (2013) which I have written about at length in “From Underdog to Overview: Perspectivism, Symbolism and Taxonomies in the films of Camille Henrot”, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, #42. There is also a nod to the proto-psychedel..