“Tape,” a guerrilla indie drama that confronts some of the ways sexual harassment has been embedded in the entertainment industry, begins with Rosa (Annarosa Mudd) getting ready to go u…
,” a guerrilla indie drama that confronts some of the ways sexual harassment has been embedded in the entertainment industry, begins with Rosa getting ready to go undercover — but really, she’s dressing for battle. After rigging herself up with a hidden camera, she mutilates her body in homage to Lavinia in “Titus Andronicus,” piercing her own tongue and using a razor blade to carve a bracelet of blood around her wrist.
“Tape,” written and directed by Deborah Kampmeier , is a bare-bones movie, very minimalist and stripped down, yet that’s part of its stubborn intrigue. It leads us, step by step, into the swamp of sexual harassment, dramatizing how it can emerge from the insidious, layered, power-driven zone of erotic image-making that’s part of what drives our entertainment culture. And the film accomplishes this without a lot of muss and fuss.
Rosa has already snuck into the loft to plant two hidden cameras, and she can see the video feed on her iPad, which lends the film an abstract suspense. But the true tension comes from what an expertly written and acted sequence unfolds in there. As Lux, Tarek Bishara is like David Strathairn playing a bad ’70s soap opera actor moonlighting as a porn stud. Lux may be devious, but he’s not dumb.
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