Editor | Spring 2025

At Your Service is a four minute film that I created for my Media Archeology in Cinema course at SFSU. For this project I had to compile archival film footage that I found on the Internet Archive with a combination of modern digital media. My goal for this experimental film was to explore the evolution and persistence of gendered representation in media.

The first half of the film starts with an archival black and white musical number featuring the song “At Your Service,” in which women are portrayed as submissive and decorative. I layered this footage with clips from modern films (The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, I, Tonya, The Substance), commercials, and adult content, alongside voiceovers from public figures like Andrew Tate and Donald Trump, highlighting how objectification still permeates mainstream media.

A tonal shift follows: a black screen and the noise of television switching channels to signal a reset. The, accompanied by Greta Gerwig’s Little Women monologue and Air’s “Playground Love,” the second half reclaims the narrative. I used archival and cinematic footage of women and young girls being portrayed as strong, curious, expressive, and human