Silence at the Palace: Feminist perspectives in cinema
Julie Dash. Daughters of the dust. Film, 1991
Type of activity: audiovisual series
Date: March 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 21, 23, 24, 26 and 28 2012
Place: Sabatini Building, Auditorium
Admission: free of charge, with seating on a first-come, first-served basis
Curator: Berta Sichel
Within the framework of:
How to give feminist film its own voice against the conventions of classic film and how to maintain the subaltern nature of this voice? While feminism is a social movement that has had an enormous impact on the theory and history of film, this influence has been seen in very diverse film practices, which serve as a stage for the different changes and revisions of feminist criticism itself. The program of this series represents an attempt to bring together works created by women that up to now have been absent from the official historiography of film, but that have stood out, in terms of film analysis, for their subversive capacity. Thus, it is not surprising that back in the 1980s Teresa de Lauretis claims that feminist film should not do away with narrative or destroy visual pleasure, but should instead display an oedipal and vengeful narrative.
At the beginning, it focused on the female stereotypes so present in Hollywood films. However, it was soon discovered that reaffirming images were not sufficient to change the underlying structures in film. Feminist critics tried to understand the omnipresent power of patriarchal images with the help of structuralist theoretical frameworks such as semiotics and psychoanalysis. That this type of film destroyed the viewer's visual delight was not a problem, critics saw in the disappearance of classic cinematographic narration a sentimental lament.
Feminist film encompasses not only fiction but also documentary film. The problems of finding an appropriate style were perhaps more pronounced in this genre, which was conceived around the idea that a specific truth or reality is an illusion. In this regard, revisioning feminist cinema has its share of contradictions and challenges, such as the construction of a female subject based on the criticism of subjectivity or the idea of another author, different from the dominating and masculine figure of the director.
Program
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Sally Potter. Thriller. 16 mm, 1979
Session 1
Date: March 1
Time: 7 p.m.
Marguerite Duras. Césarée, 1979. DVD, color, 10 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
Marguerite Duras. Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne), 1979. Betacam SP, colour, 28 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
Collectif Jeune Cinéma
Sally Potter. Thriller, l979. DVD, B/W, sound, 34 min
Women Make Movies
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Laura Mulvey y Peter Wollen. Riddles of
the Sphinx. 16 mm, 1977 Cortesía del
British Film Institute
Session 2
Date: March 5
Time: 7 p.m.
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen. Riddles of the Sphinx, 1977. DVD, colour, 92 min,original language with Spanish subtitles
British Film Institute
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Shelly Silver. 37 Stories about Leaving
Home. Betacam SP, 1996
Session 3
Date: March 7
Time: 7 p.m.
Shelly Silver. 37 Stories About Leaving Home, 1996. DVD, colour, sound, 52 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
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Agnès Varda. Sans toit ni loi. 35 mm, 1985
Session 4
Date: March 9
Time 7 p.m.
Agnès Varda. Vagabound / Sans toit ni loi, 1985. 35 mm, colour, 105 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
Cortesía del Institut Français de Madrid
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VVAA. Seven Women-Seven Sins.16 mm,
1987
Session 5
Date: March 10
Time: 7.30 p.m.
Various authors. Seven Women-Seven Sins, 1987. DVD, colour, 101 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
Women Make Movies
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Kay Sloan. Suffragettes in the Silent
Cinema. DVD, 2003
Session 6
Date: March 12
Time: 7 p.m.
Kay Sloan. Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema, 2003. DVD, colour and B/W, sound, 35 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
Joyce Follet. Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941-1977, 1998. DVD, colour, 56 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
Woman Make Movies
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Julie Dash. Daughters of the dust. 35 mm,
1991
Session 7
Date: March 14
Time: 7 p.m.
Julie Dash. Daughters of the Dust, 1991. DVD, colour, 105 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
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Cecilia Barriga. Time’s Up!. 35 mm, 2000
Session 8
Date: March 21
Time: 7 p.m.
Cecilia Barriga. Time´s up!, 2000. 35 mm, colour, 90 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
Alokatu
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Margarethe von Trotta. Vision. 35 mm,
2009
Session 9
Date: March 23
Time: 7 p.m.
Margarethe von Trotta. Vision- Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen, 2009. 35 mm, colour, 110 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
Karma Films
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Barbara Hammer. LOVER OTHER: The
Story of Claude Cahun and
Marcel Moore. DVD, 2006
Session 10
Date: March 24
Time: 7.30 p.m.
Barbara Hammer. LOVER OTHER: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, 2006. DVD, colour and B/W, 55 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
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Gemma Cubero y Celeste Carrasco. Ella es
el matador. DVD, 2009. © Talcual Films
Session 11
Date: March 26
Time: 7 p.m.
Gemma Cubero y Celeste Carrasco. Ella es el matador, 2009. DVD, colour, 62 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
Women Make Movies
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Guerrilla Girls. Fotografía de las Guerrilla
Girls en el baño con el póster “El
nacimiento del feminismo”. Cortesía de las
Guerrilla Girls
Session 12
Date: March 28
Time: 7 p.m.
Lynn Hershman. ! Women Art and Revolution: A Secret History, 2011. DVD, colour, 83 min, original language with Spanish subtitles
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