Self-Care

An homage to Martin Scorsese’s student film ‘The Big Shave’ (1967), ‘Self Care’ (2024) is body-horror as comment on the self-mutilatory impulse of American imperialism and consumer capitalism in the influencer age. A young woman steps into her bathroom and indulges in her own kind of ‘wellness’ ritual; 57 years earlier a young man stepped into his in pursuit of ‘the best a man can get’. The same culture which brought you My Lai now proffers the bombs that fall on Gaza City; the mask may change but the buying, and the bloodletting, remain.