Cinema Feministe

Cikel feminističnega filma

From the data base of the online video programming platform ArtFem.TV, a monthly selection of videos and films is screened at the cinema Udarnik in Maribor, Slovenia. The selection of works is chosen each month on an issue of contexts in the feminist field by Evelin Stermitz.

During the year 2012 also FemLink is invited to screen their International Video Collages within the Cinéma Féministe screening program.

Cinéma Féministe is a screening program curated by Evelin Stermitz and organized in collaboration with son:DA and Zavod Udarnik.

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Program for 5th & 19th of April @20h

Suicide

70 min. // 2003 // Shot, written, directed, edited by Shelly Silver

www.shellysilver.com

suicide is a feature-length fiction of a woman’s voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living.

Shot to resemble a personal diary film, and starring Silver herself as the fictional filmmaker heroine, suicide is edgy, dark and funny; an audacious act of flirting with the revelatory autobiographical. It is a wild ride, as the heroine, slipping ever further into the shadow areas between the real and the imagined….

Special Jury Prize at Moscow International Film Festival.

ARHIV

Program for 22nd of March 2012 @ 20h

The Heretics

Directed by Joan Braderman

Produced by Crescent Diamond

© No More Nice Girls Productions 2009

91 Min.

http://helios.hampshire.edu/nomorenicegirls/heretics/

THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement for the first time in a feature film or video. Joan Braderman, director and narrator, follows her dream of becoming a filmmaker to New York City in 1971. By chance, she joins a feminist art collective at the epicenter of the 1970’s art world in lower Manhattan. In her first person account, THE HERETICS charts the history of a feminist collective from the inside out.

That group, the Heresies Collective, published: “HERESIES; A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics” from 1977-1992. Unlike more traditional “documentaries,” the film is framed with striking new digital motion graphics that extend the aesthetics of the magazine into the digital realm and onto the screen. THE HERETICS focuses on The Heresies Collective as a microcosm of the larger international women’s movement, in which thousands of small, private groups of women met together in forms unique to their own settings, to consider their situation — as women in a man’s world — and to devise strategies for unlocking the potential in women’s lives.

The hundreds of collective members, now scattered around the globe are accomplished artists, writers, architects, painters, filmmakers, designers, editors, curators, and teachers. Twenty-four of these women, speak intimately with the filmmaker about the extraordinary times they shared, challenging the terms of gender and power and re-imagining the lives of generations to come.

Designing expressive ways to layer images, we work with: text, animation, archival stills and footage, the magazine itself, completed artworks and art as it is being made on sites world-wide. We collage all these elements in a language that evokes the collective experience and the aesthetics of the magazine. The original soundtrack for THE HERETICS mirrors the “radical collage” aesthetic, mixing acoustic rock guitar, scat-singing, jazz piano and violin, made mainly by women.

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Program for January and February 2012

Thursday, 19. january // Thursday, 02. february // Thursday, 16. february @ 20.00

The Beauty Academy of Kabul

A Film by Liz Mermin
Noble Enterprise Production 2004
74 Min. Documentary

http://www.beautyacademyofkabul.com
http://www.merminfilm.com

“A profound reminder of the things that make us human” – The Los Angeles Times

An arresting and optimistic portrait of post-Taliban Afghanistan, the theatrical hit THE BEAUTY ACADEMY OF KABUL captures the wonderfully odd circumstances that bring Afghan and American women together in pursuit of physical beauty and much more. In this utterly unique film, a quirky gaggle of Western hairstylists, including Afghan-American women, armed with blow driers and designer scissors, improbably opens a school to teach eager Afghan women the high art of fixing hair. Torn by decades of war and oppression, the women of Kabul embrace perm rods and mascara with unbridled hope even as they candidly recall the horrors of burkas and bombs. Both humorous and slyly subversive, the film offers poignant moments of culture clash between the Americans and Afghans and touching moments of feminine solidarity. Eschewing the trivial, THE BEAUTY ACADEMY OF KABUL innovatively renders the odd story of international goodwill through hair care in exquisitely humane terms.