1m 16mm B&W ACE and BBC2 writer/director/producer/performer

camera Seamus McGarvey

editor Gabriela Ennis

Cast Sarah Miles Edna and George Bowering

Broadcast  BBC2 x2 1990 selected screenings Canal Plus 1990 , ZDF 1990  Ikon gallery Birmingham;Tate Gallery, NFT, Canal Plus, ZDF British School of Rome as part of Sweetie female video artists Mar 99 British School of Rome Mar 99

‘A fugitive feminist in fur.’

The message ‘I Love You’, with all its power, is directed by Sarah Miles straight to the viewer. In her tragicomic fable the stereotypic bunny girl struggles for supremacy with the anarchic hare symbol of enlightenment and incarnation.
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THE HARE
We cannot defy the importance of love and nature. Throughout the centuries the hare has survived despite all men can do to them. Hare Girl like the crazy cross dressing Bugs Bunny, non conformist; mixture of wisdom and stupidity, mediator to the unseen environment, my inspiration. SM

The hare was sacred to Aphrodite, goddess of love In fables the figure of the fugitive girl in animal disguise stood not for the rejection of sexuality but the condition of it. The wronged and runaway daughter has been violated and is exiled outside society.’

Marina Warner.