Dana DeArmond
2004·25 min
Dana DeArmond walks in shy, all princess, and the cameras catch it. She laughs when the pain hits, when the shame crawls up her spine, so I shove a ball gag between her teeth and the laughter stops dead. Clothespins bite down her skin next, row after row, each click snapping tight. Rope coils around her wrists and pulls her shoulders back until her chest lifts, open, waiting. The first slap lands hard across her thigh and she jerks, toes curling against the floor. Another slap follows, then the cane, cutting sharp lines that bloom red. She fights the ropes, breathes hard through her nose, drool sliding past the gag and down her chin. Every flinch makes the clothespins dance. 2004 footage, raw, cut short by a busted feed, but what’s here still burns.










