Looking Differently: Nomadic Perspective in Women's Films following the screening of SELBÉ: ONE AMONG MANY and REASSEMBLAGE


Friday, May 19 | 6:00 p.m. | Kinoteka 3

Looking Differently: Nomadic Perspective in Women's Films

following the screening of SELBÉ: ONE AMONG MANY, dir. Safi Faye and REASSEMBLAGE, dir. Trinh T. Minh-ha

Partners: Jagiellonian University, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, The Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art E.V

Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Radkiewicz and Magda Lipska will discuss the impact of women's nomadic experience on broadening the field of vision when depicting the cultures of the global South, after the screening of the films featured in the Trinh T. Minh-ha retrospective and No Master Territory section, accompanying the exhibition of the same title organised at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Although in different ways, the two films presented in the block portray the lives of women in Senegal – Safi Faye speaks from a participatory perspective, while Trinh T. Minh-ha's film is a critique of the narrative ethnography. The guest speakers will discuss how different strategies and experiences allow for a closer look at the portrayed women and challenge the authoritative imagery in documentary films.

 

Guests:

prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Radkiewicz – film scholar. She works at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at Jagiellonian University. Her fields of interest include issues of cultural identity in contemporary cinema and the visual arts. She researches the work of women in cinema, photography and art.

Magda Lipska – curator, cultural studies scholar and art theorist. She has been a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw since 2008. “Hope Is a Different Color. From the Global South to the Łódź Film School”, which she co-edited (with Monika Talarczyk), was published in 2022.

Moderator:

dr Gabriela Sitek – co-curator of “When the Moon Waxes Red”. Trinh T. Minh-ha Retrospective organised as part of the 20th Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival.