The story of the mouth

Abstract

The text examines Jean Cocteau's 1930 film Blood of a poet. The poet is male and anxious about his creativity. there is a statue in his studio which is played by Lee Miller. the relationship between the poet and the statue and the role of a mouth and speaking/communicating is at the heart of this film. Generally the focus has been on the poet and Cocteau but I shifted the focus to the mouth and the statue. I note 'wounds of silence and speech bring forth the wish for both to be oriented and understood differently.' I conclude with a reference to Luce Irigaray and the importance of formulating new languages that do not 'reproduce the same story.'