We have had the honour of a weekly online film festival, curated Heroine Lisl Ponger, for the past 52 weeks but for now we are hitting pause
Week 52, Mixed Bag 2 : For the final celebration there is another selection from my list of films that has grown over the last 52 weeks: art films, documentaries, short narrations, music videos. It’s also a programme where you have to rely on listening as well as on the impact of the visual images especially if you don’t speak Spanish or Italian.
This programme oscillates between the weird and the wonderful, it might be one or the other or both at the same time, the choice lies in the eye of the beholder.
Week 47, The Flâneuse : Originally the image of strolling or sauntering was ascribed to an affluent male, a literary gentleman from 19th-century France who moved unobserved, through the streets but was always observing.
Week 46, Carnival : Carnival’s origin lies is a Christian festive season before Lent. Traditionally it is celebrated in countries with a large Catholic presence with parades, street parties and sometimes religious services. Masked figures with wondrous costume may people the streets accompanied by live music.
Week 45 : Hip-hop feminism can be seen as part of Black feminism, the fight for social change in a capitalist system that insists on inequalities based on race, class, gender and heteronormativity. It is a ‘theoretical and practical enactment of intersectional, sex positive and inclusive feminist ideas and concepts that draw on critical analysis of gender roles within hip hop culture’. (Reyhan Şahin).
Remember beautiful French actress Brigid Bardot in the 1960ies, before her political views took a sinister turn? Remember all the nice objects that surrounded our childhood? Till today US-American Laci Fay and her husband live as if they were in 1958.
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