Oppositional (In)sights: Art, Film and Power Structures

Špela Čadež, Natalija Majsova, Yoana Pavlova, Daniella Shreir
Roundtable discussion, 90'

In English

Free admission

Cinematic images are not merely creative endeavours; they are also a result of power structures and relations. To influence screen representations, to acknowledge gender diversity in art, and to redistribute the sources that enable artistic practice, we need to question the structures enabling, legitimising and idealising certain images, films and artists, while excluding the others.

Women film directors, critics, editors, festival selectors and researchers will address inequalities in art, with an emphasis on film and film criticism, and discuss them from their personal experience – from the perspective of women and other marginalised groups –, highlighting both individual and collective strategies of resisting them.

The panellists: Špela Čadež, Natalija Majsova, Yoana Pavlova and Daniella Shreir, moderated by Petra Meterc.

The event is also part of the Autumn Film School.

The roundtable is thematically linked to the Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022) documentary, screened at 16.30. At 21.00, the discussion will be followed by Oppositional (In)sights – a screening of selected contemporary Slovenian short films.

This roundtable discussion will be live-streamed.

Organisation: Slovenian Cinematheque, Ekran and City of Women in cooperation with the Slovenian branch of the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI. The event is part of the project Power, funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.