WOMEN IN FILM

Some of them are pioneers in their field, and others are getting through their everyday life, but all of them are made singular by societal circumstances and human relationships.

$10. $8 concession for students with valid ID, senior citizens and full-time NS men. Limited seating. Tickets on sale by end of September 2011 at SISTIC and SAM .

Fri, 25 Nov 2011
!Women Art Revolution
Dir. Lynn Hershmann-Leeson, 2010, USA , 83 mins, R21 (Nudity and Sexual Scene)
Constructed from over 400 hours of footage collected over 40 years, this documentary by multimedia artist Lynn Hershman-Leeson is part social survey, part celebration and part critique of the story of women in art from the 1960s to the present day.

Sat, 26 Nov 2011
Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramović
Dir. Babette Mangolte, 2007, USA , 93 mins
This film documents a week-long performance that took place at the Guggenheim in New York in 2005, where Abramović recreated seminal performance works from the 1970s by Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, Gina Pane, Joseph Beuys and herself, reinterpreting them as one would a musical score.

Fri, 2 Dec 2011
Feet Unbound
Dir. Ng Khee Jin, 2007, Singapore, 86 mins, In Mandarin with English subtitles, PG
Featuring a post-screening discussion with director Ng Khee Jin.
In 2005, filmmaker Ng Khee Jin, together with Elly, a journalist from Beijing, embarked on a journey to retrace the Long March taken by the Red Army in China from 1934 to 1936, after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. This military retreat of over 200,000 troops marching on foot for over 12,500 kilometres lasted more than three years. This film looks at the event from the point of view of the women soldiers in the Western Route Army, many of whom were teenagers at that time

Sat, 3 Dec 2011
Koundi and the National Thursday
Dir. Ariane Astrid Atodji, 2010, Cameroon, 86 mins, In Maka and French with English subtitles, PG 13 (Some Sexual References)
Villagers in Koundi, Cameroon survive by harvesting local timber, but when they decide to diversify, the whole village collaborates to plant and cultivate a communal cocoa field, working on it every Thursday. This documentary is a nuanced portrait of how a small community uses uniquely African solutions in their transition to the global economy.

Fri, 9 Dec 2011
You and Me
Dir. Ma Liwen, 2005, China, 83 mins, In Mandarin with English subtitles, PG

Fri, 9 Dec 2011
You and Me
Dir. Ma Liwen, 2005, China, 83 mins, In Mandarin with English subtitles, PG

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Young student Xiao Ma arrives in Beijing from the rural provinces to attend university. While searching for a place to stay, she chances across a dilapidated siheyuan or traditional courtyard house, and rents a room from its old woman resident, known as Grandma. This beautifully-shot film follows their intergenerational relationship over the course of four seasons.

Sat, 10 Dec 2011
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975, Belgium, 201 mins, In French with English subtitles, M18 (Nudity)
For three days we follow Jeanne Dielman, a widow who lives with her son in an apartment in Brussels. She cooks, cleans, shops and makes dinner for her son, and in the afternoons, she receives clients as a prostitute. A landmark film for feminist film theorists, this influential work, made when Akerman was only 25 years old, manages to extract dread and suspense from what seems like a monotonous daily routine of a housewife.

Sat, 17 Dec 2011
Attenberg
Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010, Greece, 97 mins, Greek with English subtitles
Rigorously conceived, the film is constructed with the formalism of a Greek tragedy (complete with choric interludes) and framed with the dryly humorous, anthropological air of a nature documentary by David Attenborough, whose mispronounced surname titles the film. Set against the crumbling backdrop of a small factory town once bustling with modern industry but now depopulated and crumbling, the film feels timely in the light of Greece’s recent economic woes. For her performance as Marina, Ariane Labed won Best Actress at the 2010 Venice Film Festival.