Film programme: Sisters! Making Films, Doing Politics


FILM PROGRAMME: SISTERS! MAKING FILMS, DOING POLITICS

During one day four films will be shown from four different geographical locations that each address women’s lives from a global, political, social and economical perspective. Together the films present a complex image of how gender, class and ethnicity affect the conditions for the everyday lives of women; work, language, body and resistance. It is not, however only the feminist content of the films that is of importance, but also the conscious combination of image and sound that gives the films its political form. How and in what ways can the conditions of women’s lives be depicted in film today?

The film programme is curated by Petra Bauer, and is connected to her research project Sisters! Making Films, Doing Politics, and is also part of the project History Unfolds at Historiska Museet.

The films are in English or contain English subtitles.

Admission Free

The four films are:

11.30am – 1.10pm

Factory Complex (Im Heung-Soon, 2015), a celebrated film that among other things won the Silver Lion in Venice, 2015.

1.30 – 2.45pm

Sisters! (Petra Bauer with Southall Black Sisters, 2011) produced by the art institution The Showroom, London.

2.45 – 3.00pm

Rehearsals (Rehearsals, 2015), produced with support by Sveriges Television and Svenska Filminstitutet

3.20 – 4.00pm

Ricerche: three (Sharon Hayes, 2013), produced by ‘Il Pilazzo Enciclopedico’, with support by the International Production Fund, Outset 55th Venice Biennale.

More info about the films:

Factory Complex

Heung-Soon IM, 2014, 95'

The drastic economic development in South Korea once surprised the rest of the world. However, behind of it was an oppression the marginalized female labourers had to endure. The film invites us to the lives of the working class women engaged in the textile industry of the 1960s, all the way through the stories of flight attendants, cashiers, and non-regular workers of today. As we encounter the vista of female factory workers in Cambodia that poignantly resembles the labour history of Korea, the form of labour changes its appearance but the essence of the bread-and-butter question remains still.

Sisters!

Petra Bauer with Southall Black Sisters, 2011, 72'

Sisters! is collaboration between Petra Bauer and the Southall Black Sisters—the radical, pioneering London-based feminist organisation, who since 1979 have politically engaged in the contemporary social and political conditions of black and minority women in the UK. Documenting one week in the life of the organisation, the film takes their daily work as a springboard for a visual discussion on feminism, politics and aesthetics in today's society, and it also shows political resistance in its most ordinary, everyday form.

Rehearsals

Rehearsals, 2015, 13'

Rehearsals is a collaborative film project that poetically reflects on the act of listening as a political method in order to challenge who and what are acknowledged as legitimate subjects in today’s Sweden. The film project involved around thirty people - coming from very diverse backgrounds with different set of knowledge – together they explored the idea of mutual listening; meaning a process of collective participation and interaction, with an aim of critically thinking of structures of knowledge production and dissemination.

Ricerche: three

Sharon Hayes, 2013, 38'

‘Ricerche: three’ uses Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film, ‘Comizi d’Amore’, from 1963 as the guidepost for a contemporary inquiry into the “sexual problem” in the United States in 2013. While the political climate in post-war Italy in 1963 was deeply distinct from that of the United States in 2013, both were sites in which a persistent political condition in which so-called value-based policy and ideology act out symptomatically to cover up underlying economic and political vulnerabilities.

‘Ricerche: three’ is an expanded interview with 35 students at an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, focuses down on a single site and collective situation. Using the container of an all-women’s college (with only 47 such institutions remaining in the US), ‘Ricerche: three’ attempts to address the contradiction that such gender-segregated institutions are “behind” and “ahead” of the rest of society.

När: 11 september 2016 09:30 - 11 september 2016 14:00

Var: Historiska museet, Narvavägen 13-1 / Stockholm

Arrangör: Petra Bauer / History Unfolds

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