Programme edition 2021
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AIF Sandra Lahire - 1
A compilation of short films in the context of Artist in Focus Sandra Lahire / Courtisane festival.
AIF Sandra Lahire - 2
A compilation of short films in the context of Artist in Focus Sandra Lahire / Courtisane festival.
AIF Sandra Lahire - 3
A compilation of short films in the context of Artist in Focus Sandra Lahire / Courtisane festival.
AIF Sandra Lahire - 4
A compilation of short films in the context of Artist in Focus Sandra Lahire / Courtisane festival.
AIF Sandra Lahire - 5
A compilation of short films in the context of Artist in Focus Sandra Lahire / Courtisane festival.
Arrows
Sandra Lahire
Arrows uses a combination of live action and rostrum work to communicate the experience of anorexia and to analyse the cultural causes of the condition.
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A Cold Draft
Lis Rhodes
What is most provocative about this film is that it proposes multiple credible points of view even as the woman is being certified insane by the ‘Censors’. We voyage into the skull of a woman and peer out to a monumentally static cold waste wit planetary slow motion. It is a ...
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Double Labyrinthe
Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki
An intercorporeal study in two parts, carried out entirely by two women in search of their own mental structures, their own poetics, their own language. One films the other.
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Edge
Sandra Lahire
This short, named after Sylvia Plath’s last poem, is about the woman who is a daughter; icy, perfected and petrified for the patriarchy. She is also a mother drawing her two children with her into this death-in-life. Edge is the irony, which is the poet’s defiance.
Eerie
Sandra Lahire
A magical film loop, combining a Berlin Lesbian decadence with falling in love in a cablecar, high above the slopes of Mount Pilatus. Inspired by German expressionist filmmaking, with in-camera dissolves. (Sandra Lahire)
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Focii
Jeanette Iljon
Focii not only explores the construction of self, and the dynamics of self and other, but also the interaction between the viewer’s body and the body onscreen, raising questions on the nature of identification in cinema.
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Johnny Panic
Sandra Lahire
Articulated through dreams, Johnny Panic darts between recollections of familial trauma and the prosecution of the Rosenberg’s in Cold War-era New York to unleash a vision of dread, and a resounding dignity in spite of it.
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Lady Lazarus
Sandra Lahire
Sylvia Plath introduced her Lady Lazarus reading by saying: "The speaker is a woman who has a great and terrible gift of being reborn. The only trouble is, she has to die first. She is the phoenix... She is also just a good plain resourceful woman." In this film Lady Lazarus is ...
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Night Dances
Sandra Lahire
An overlaying of light and dark imagery accompanied by a piano creates a visual dance that invites the viewer to meditate on the dualities of darkness and brightness, on love, illness, life, and death.
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Plutonium Blonde
Sandra Lahire
Part of a trilogy of films on radiation, this dystopic collage frames the fractured narrative of Thelma, a woman working with the monitors in a plutonium reactor.
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Serpent River
Sandra Lahire
Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community living in the shadow of uranium mines in Ontario, Canada.
Stages of Mourning
Sarah Pucill
I ritualise through a performance to camera the coming to terms with the loss of my partner, Sandra Lahire. (Sarah Pucill)
Swollen Stigma
Sarah Pucill
Femininity, as a construction, is explored within a lesbian context where an assertion of lesbian symbolic imagery is created.
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Terminals
Sandra Lahire
Terminals exposes women’s corporeal vulnerability to techno-patriarchal culture through a filmic exploration of the working conditions of female workers at nuclear power stations.
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Uranium Hex
Sandra Lahire
Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores uranium mining in Canada and its destructive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines.