For this year’s edition of FILMFEST Dresden, we’re delighted to screen the film ¿Y su mamá que hace? (And What Does Your Mother Do?) by Colectivo Cine-Mujer: Cecilia Herrera, Teresa Fernández, Main Suaza, Eulalia Carrizosa, Sara Bright, Consuelo Rojas, Guentcy Armenta, Margarita Medina, as part of the programme, Focus 1: What a Way to Make a Living! curated by Rachel Pronger. For further info, visit.
The programme looks into the reality of working life, filtered through intersectional feminist lenses. Encompassing a mixture of archive and contemporary shorts from around the world, the film selection offers a transnational, time-spanning insight into what it means to be a “working woman”, exploring the ways in which our experiences of work are shaped by dynamics of class, race, gender and nationality.
The film selection also serves as a showcase for short-form filmmaking in all its resourceful creativity, embracing a range of documentary, analogue and animation techniques to visually reflect the diversity of perspectives on display here. By focusing on work done by women filmmakers, “… What a Way to Make a Living!” is also built on a subtextual meta-reflection about the way female artistic labour has, like so much “women’s work” often been belittled and sidelined within the history of film. The shorts here include work performed solo, in partnership and as part of collectives. It includes examples of work by filmmakers who would build large bodies of work, as well as by those whose filmmaking was cut short by the painful realities of the industry.
Ultimately, this programme hopes to place a polyphony of women’s voices at the centre of the screen. While there are no easy answers here, this approach does at least allow us to briefly down tools, pause and take a moment to celebrate the many unseen women whose largely invisible labour has made our presence here in the cinema today possible.
The programme includes:
- Fannie’s Film (d. Fronza Woods, 1981).
- And What Does Your Mother Do? (d. Colectivo Cine-Mujer: Cecilia Herrera, Teresa Fernández, Main Suaza, Eulalia Carrizosa, Sara Bright, Consuelo Rojas, Guentcy Armenta, Margarita Medina, 1980).
- At the Lőrinc Spinnery (d. Márta Mészáros, 1972).
- The President Wears Nothing (d. Diana Agar, Clara Borges, 2019).
- Every Sunday (d. Keti Papadema, 2021)
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