Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained
1977, 39:16 min, color, sound
Rosler's distanced depiction of the systematic, institutionalized "science" of measurement and classification is meant to recall the oppressive tactics of the armed forces or concentration camps, and to underscore the internalization of standards that determine the meaning of women's being.
"Bureaucratic crime can be brutal or merely devestating, we need not make a choice. Sartre says Evil demands only the systematic substitution of the abstract for the concrete, that is it demands only the derealisation of the fully human status of the people on whom you carry out your idea and plans. Statistics."
