Special film screenings by of 'Kazarken- As we Dig' by Filmmaker Güldem Durmaz who will be in attendance for a Q&A.
An evening of movies about women "in between" cultural identies at Every Woman Biennial presented by New York based Film Production company Expatfilms.
Opening short:
1st FILM: MY OTHER HALF by Chantal Feitosa
Runtime: 3min
Country: USA
A white mother and her biracial daughter share very different views on shaping and preserving identity across family generations.
2nd FILM: NO MORE BEAUTIFUL DANCES by Anabella Lenzu
Runtime: 4min
Country: Argentina
"No more beautiful dances” wrestles with the ideas of exploration, introspection and reframing a woman after becoming a mother, and being an immigrant. Lenzu’s dance theater piece uses spoken word and drawings to tell a personal vision of femininity, and what it means to be a woman today.
US PREMIERE: "IN BETWEEN" by Cecile Friedmann
Filming in subjective camera, the author follows her japanese mother on a trip to Japan in 2013. From Kôbe to the areas affected by the March 2011 tsunami and the house of writer Natsume Sôseki, we discover a poetic mother, and the complex relationship between the two. Gradually, emerges a portrait of two « in between » With the archive films shot In Japan by the grandfather between 1931 and 1940, the transgenerational question arises, with its connection to the disaster too. This travel through the country is also an initiation trip through time, an intimate confrontation with the impermanence of things. The Mujô.
Director Cecile Friedmann in attendance & Q&A to follow