Women Take Aim

2002

2001

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1999

A Women's Studies Film Series 2003

All Women Take Aim films are shown at 6:30 pm in 105 Fenton Hall. (Free)

September 30:
Dam/age: A Film with Arundhati Roy, Aradhana Seth. The film explores Roy's role in activist causes in India opposing the effects of globalization, nationalism, and religious fundamentalism, especially in relation to the construction of big dams in the Narmada River Valley.

October 14:
For My Children, Michal Aviad. The film is Aviad's autobiographical exploration of what it means to live and raise children in Jerusalem today. Weaving together the narratives of three generations, the film is a poetic exploration of the effects of violence on one family's history.

October 21:
This Is Not Living, Alia Arasoughly. The film features the experiences of Palestinian women living in Ramallah during the most recent intifada.

November 11:
900 Women, Laleh Khadivi. Khadivi examines the living conditions in Louisiana's only correctional facility for women. The film focuses on interviews with a selection of women who represent a variety of life experiences.

December 2:
History Lessons, Barbara Hammer. This film concludes Hammer's trio on lesbian history. Nitrate Kisses and Tender Fictions represented non-traditional lesbian and gay relationships and Hammer's own autobiography respectively. In this film, Hammer returns to her trademark pastiche of archival footage and personal narrative to examine how lesbian histories are and are not recorded.

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Women Take Aim Film Series 2002

Sept. 26 Lina Wertmuller, Seven Beauties . 1976. Italy.

Oct. 3 Marta Meszaros, The Girl . 1968. Hungary.

Oct 10 Heiny Srour, Leila and the Wolves. 1984. Lebanon.

Oct 17 Mandy Jacobsen and Carmen Jelincic, Calling the Ghosts. 1996. Croatia.

Oct 24 Euzhan Palcy, Simeon . 1992. France.

Oct 31 Hannah Weyer, La Boda . 2000. U.S./Mexico.

Nov 7 Mira Nair, Salaam Bombay . 1988. India.

Nov 14 Trinh T. Minh-ha, The Fourth Dimension . 2001. Japan.

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Women Take Aim Film Series 2001

9/19 Jane Campion, Holy Smoke (1999). 117 m.

9/26 Mina Shum, Double Happiness (1994). 84 m.

10/3 Martha Coolidge, Rambling Rose (1991). 115 m.

10/10 Lina Wertmuller, The Worker and the Hairdresser (1997). 104 m.

10/17 Funari and Query, Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000). 75 m.

10/24 Margarette Von Trotta, Matianne and Julienne (1980). 103 m.

10/31 Chantal Akerman, Tout Une Nuit (1982). 90 m.

11/7 Agnes Varda, The Vagabond (1985). 105 m.

11/14 Leni Reifenstahl, The Blue Light (1932). 77 m.

11/28 Donna Deitch, Desert Hearts (1986). 91 m.

 

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A Women's Studies Film Series 2000

Women in Early Hollywood
Ida Lupino behind the camera

9/6 Gwendolyn Foster, Women Who Made the Movies (1992). 55 m.
9/13 Dorothy Arzner, Christopher Strong   (1933). 100 m.
9/20 Ida Lupino, The Hitchhiker  (1943). 71 m.
9/27 Julie Dash, Illusions (1983). 34 m.

Still from Julie Dash's Illusions

Documentaries by Women of Color

10/4 Helena Solberg, Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business (1995). 92 m.
Still from Solberg's Bananas is My Business

10/18 Ngozi Onwurah, And Still I Rise (1993). 30 m. and Coffee Colored Children (1988). 15 m.
10/25 Trinh T. Minh-ha, A Tale of Love (1995). 108 m.

Still from Trinh's A Tale of Love

Independent Filmmakers of the 1990s
11/1 Kimberly Pierce, Boys Don't Cry  (1999). 118 m.
11/15 Christina Andreef, Soft Fruit  (1999). 101 m.
Still from Andreef's Soft Fruit

11/29 Julie Taymor, Titus  (1999). 162 m.
12/6 Patricia Rozema, Mansfield Park  (1999). 110 m.

 

Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program, and the Women's Student Union.

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Women's Studies Film Series 1999

				
Sponsored by the Dean for Arts and Humanities
and the Women's Studies Program.

Lucy Winer & Paula De Koenigsberg, Rate It X. 

Women Filmmakers, The Gaze, and Sexuality
9/7	 	Dorothy Arzner, Dance, Girl, Dance (1940).                

9/14	Agnes Varda, Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961).                  
9/21	Marleen Gorris, A Question of Silence (1982). 

9/28	Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance (1988) and
		Ngozi Onwurah, The Body Beautiful (1991).


 Ngozi Onwurah, The Body Beautiful. 

 


Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance.

 

 

Feminist Documentaries and Expermental Films
10/5	 Jane Campion, A Girl's Own Story, Passionless 
		Moments, and Peel (1983).  
10/12 	Trinh Minh-ha, Surnme Viet Given Name Nam (1989). 

10/19 	Lourdes Portillo, The Devil Never Sleeps (1995).

10/26 	Barbara Hammer, Nitrate Kisses (1992). 
11/2 	Lucy Winer and Paula De Koenigsberg, Rate It X (1986). 
Jane Campion, A Girl's Own Story.


Mothers, Daughters, and Stories of Descent

11/9	Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust  (1991).  114 m.

11/16	Ann Hui, Song of the Exile  (1990).  110 m.

11/30	Sally Potter, Orlando  (1992).  93 m.

12/7	Marleen Gorris, Antonia's Line  (1995).  93 m.

Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust.

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