Film Programme

Film programme selected by: Simon Popek

The
subject of aging has for long been neglected, not only in the context of
feminist and women's studies, but it has also been neglected – not to say
warned against – in a good proportion of global film productions. In a medium
always based on spectacle and idealising its (youthful) actors-icons, this
context was never considered a subject worthy to address nor to be a market
niche.
To
be honest, aging has never been popular, whilst women directors are usually
considered a disposable part of the creative (mainstream) production apparatus
and often out-cast to the field of documentary film. This is the reason why
this very "margin" of production, topics and identity (the formula
"documentary + aging + female gender") has produced in recent years,
some of the most interesting works; films which do not necessarily address just
aging but also the conflicts of ideologies, races and identities, as well as
the "aging" of the 20th century, as testified by old women.
Grandmothers. Sometimes revolutionaries, other times just (in men's eyes)
annoying old nags. Sometimes they remember too much, other times their memory
falls apart.
These
films also open the issue of intergenerational solidarity, and in particular
they don't favour the constancy of life's development, but rather its cyclic
nature. (Simon Popek)

FILM PROGRAMME

Monday, October 8th
6 pm / Sarah Polley / Away From Her, film

Tuesday, October 9th
6 pm / Naomi Kawase / Katatsumori & Sun on the Horizon, films

Thursday, October 11th
6 pm/ Kersti Uibo / Still Life With Wife, film & /
Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda / Slices
of Time (Rezine časa), films

Friday October 12th
6 pm / Petra Seliškar / Grandmothers of the Revolution (Babice
revolucije), film

Saturday, October 13th
6 pm / Lidiya Bobrova / Granny (Babusja), film

All
screenings will be at Kosovel Hall, Cankarjev dom.

There’s a single ticket covering both films screened on Tuesday and Thursday.