Making Ladies

A documentary about maximalist Toronto media artist and sculptor Allyson Mitchell as she preps her Ladies Sasquatch installation a fake fur creature wonderland The largebodied sasquatch ladies are feminist exclamation marks and icons celebrating their different bodies as the artist explains in a winning voiceover that drives the movie Thrift store accumulations and found handicrafts are repurposed blurring ideas of craft and art high and low How to turn what is overlooked discarded and without value or even feared and despised and put these bodies at the centre of a new conversation Mitchells work provides a blueprint for how to love our monsters