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BY CAROL O' CALLAGHAN
of the Grant County Journal
SOAP LAKE
Deciding not to use this
poster to promote her film was a hard decision for Kathy
Kiefer, whose desire to honor women in their natural
form battled with her sensitivity of societal mores.
Photo by Carol O' Callaghan
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"If you can talk about
your breasts, you can talk about almost anything."
So opens 'Boobalogues,' a new documentary-style film
by Kathy Kiefer of Soap
Lake, a locally known filmmaker whose latest work may
raise a few eyebrows.
Kiefer's previous works include historical documentary
pieces about Grant
County's dams as well as the 2002 film 'Back Roads,'
a look at Soap Lake's
heyday as a destination spa in the early 1900s.
'Boobalogues' was a leap of faith for Kiefer, who hopes
audiences will
appreciate her attempt to explore an overwhelmingly
prevalent subject in a
meaningful, thought-provoking, sensitive way.
"It's storytelling, it's a 'boob-a-logue.' It's
a dialogue... " says Kiefer,
who explains the motivation for the film: "I wanted
people to talk about the
subject. Openly... That's the philosophy that drives
my work."
There is plenty to talk about in this film that takes
a quick trip through
historical perspectives and then focuses on the feelings
and
self-perceptions of individual women.
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