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Homefeminist cinema
Friday, May 26
5:00 pm – 5:20 pm (CEST)
Comparing three 2022 films (She Said, Women Talking, and Tár), Russell J.A. Kilbourn argues that they exemplify a new type of apotropaic feminist-posthumanist cinema which critiques anthropocentrism while challenging conventional cinematic tropes about women and violence through sound, off-screen space, and editing.
Friday, May 26
5:20 pm – 5:40 pm (CEST)
Drawing on the work of Laura Mulvey and feminist film theory, Georgios Arabatzis and Evangelos D. Protopapadakis examine the gaze-regulating gendered body in cinema, from the classical male hero and female love interest archetypes to the contemporary challenges of representing diverse and complex identities.
Friday, May 26
5:40 pm – 6:00 pm (CEST)
Through their skilled use of several visual strategies, Varda, Rosler, Dielman, and Maggic shed light on the hidden labor and struggles faced by women in various feminized contexts. Senka Anastasova uncovers the profound ways in which feminist cinema challenge the dominant narrative of capitalist production.
Friday, May 26
6:00 pm – 6:20 pm (CEST)
Sofia Koukia explores the political significance of the cinematic gaze from a feminist psychoanalytic perspective, using late Lacanian film theory. She goes over the four different filmic deployments of the gaze, as discussed by Todd McGowan, and argues for a more feminist—and less gendered—cinema.