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Perle - Pearl
To be a woman, to be complete,
To have her pearl back between her legs.
The life and the body of Fos were ruled by her community, her father, her husband.
To be submissive and silent, that is what was required of her.
Tho affirm this power over her, she was inflicted the seal of submission with excision at the age of 6.
Fos never wanted to be this woman. Exiled in Belgium, she realises the word ‘woman’ deserves a different definition than what she has known, that a woman has the right to bodily integrity and to pleasure.
She decides to get her life back and reclaim her wounded body. To do so she chooses to undergo a surgical reconstruction of her clitoris. Her story unfolds like a sound tale, Fos reveals herself, she takes us back to her distant past, to her forced marriage and to the day from which stemmed the rest of her life: the day her pearl was taken from her.
Credits
Main character : Fos
Director : Yasmina Hamlawi
Editing : Roxane Brunet
Mastering : Joachim Glaude
Musical composition : Manuel Hermia Cello : Sigrid Vandenbogaerde
Jackal Productions with the support of Atelier de création sonore radiophonique (Acsr), the Fonds Gulliver and the Fonds d’Aide à la Création Radiophonique en Fédération Wallonie- Bruxelles (FACR)
Also ailable on Radiola.be
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To be a woman, to be complete,
To have her pearl back between her legs.
The life and the body of Fos were ruled by her community, her father, her husband.
To be submissive and silent, that is what was required of her.
Tho affirm this power over her, she was inflicted the seal of submission with excision at the age of 6.
Fos never wanted to be this woman. Exiled in Belgium, she realises the word ‘woman’ deserves a different definition than what she has known, that a woman has the right to bodily integrity and to pleasure.
She decides to get her life back and reclaim her wounded body. To do so she chooses to undergo a surgical reconstruction of her clitoris. Her story unfolds like a sound tale, Fos reveals herself, she takes us back to her distant past, to her forced marriage and to the day from which stemmed the rest of her life: the day her pearl was taken from her.
Credits
Main character : Fos
Director : Yasmina Hamlawi
Editing : Roxane Brunet
Mastering : Joachim Glaude
Musical composition : Manuel Hermia Cello : Sigrid Vandenbogaerde
Jackal Productions with the support of Atelier de création sonore radiophonique (Acsr), the Fonds Gulliver and the Fonds d’Aide à la Création Radiophonique en Fédération Wallonie- Bruxelles (FACR)
Also ailable on Radiola.be