KILL BILL

Year: 2016

Concept by Glenn Miller & Lisabel Filiatrault

After purchasing a 110-year-old property, Art Dealer Glenn Miller discovered a case of vintage video disks. Dozens of Hollywood classics from Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull to Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western classic A Fistful of Dollars were part of the collection. Each film had one element in common—they featured a dominant male lead as the hero.  The secondary female characters were submissive sexual afterthoughts. 

Miller and his wife Lisabel wanted to create a statement about these films by using their greatest tool—ART.  The couple commissioned a local artist to create a unique mixed media piece by using a montage of the video disks as the canvas to their vision. The result is a 10 x 10 foot work of art composed of 48 video disks. Uma Thurman’s character in the Kill Bill series, Beatrix Kiddo (aka Black Mamba) takes center stage on the artwork, as her ghostly heroic stance hovers over the icons of Hollywood’s past. Her Hanzo sword and metallic gaze cuts through decades of Hollywood's oppression towards the female role in cinema. Thurman ushers in a new era of film, where female leads assume the righteous role as the heroic figure.