Nika

The Cannibalistic Councilor is a short film directed by Pedro Almodovar. In the film the protagonist, the “councilor”, delivers an explicit and descriptive monologue in the kitchen of an apartment. She is a Spanish right-wing politician and yet her monologue addresses sex as a social and public concern. While snorting cocaine and talking to another woman who lies limp on the kitchen table, seemingly dead, the Cannibalistic Councilor promotes sexual desire and pleasure as democratic activities that could create a happier and better world.

The film explicates a social non-conformity. It stands in opposition to political parties and its members by illuminating their outdated and double-faced morality. She speaks of the ways in which politicians affirm and consume their individual sexual fetishes in private, but also highlights how they publically hide their human desires as well as reject and silence any sort of sexual liberation. This film relates to prior manifestations of political activism in regards of sexual liberation and gender equality, by breaking socially imposed behaviors and rethinking the body and sexuality as political and public affairs.