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WOMEN ON FILM
A unique collection of films created by women focusing on issues of marriage, sexuality, and the nature of female friendship. From modern narrative to experimental animation, these fascinating films explore the many sides of women's lives, from the dark edges of doubt and heartbreak to the humor and support of friendship. A Q & A session led by Linda DeLibero, associate director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University will follow. Filmmaker Karen Yasinsky will be in attendance.
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Linda DeLibero (CFF Film Advisory Board) is Associate Director of the Film and Media Studies program at Johns Hopkins University where she has been teaching film since 1989. Her research and teaching areas include film history and theory; ideology and film/television/popular culture; mass culture studies; and issues in film education and historiography. She has published and lectured widely on contemporary film; the history of television theory and criticism; women, class and popular culture; and media education. Current research interests include a history of the divide between popular and academic film discourse, and the aesthetics of violence in Hollywood film. She is currently writing a book on Marlon Brando for Yale's Icons of America series.
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Screening
Saturday, Historical Society • 3:00 pm • Women on Film • Q&A
SINGLE SCREENING
$8 – available before Sat., 9/19 • $10 at the door
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IT WAS GREAT, BUT I WAS READY TO COME HOME. by Kris Swanberg - 61 minutes, 2009
Produced by Joe and Kris Swanberg
Directed by Kris Swanberg
Written by Kris Swanberg, Jade Healy, David Lowery, Ben Kasulke
Editor- David Lowery
Directory of Photography- Ben Kasulke
Music- Orange Mighty Trio
Synopsis: As best friends Cam and Annie travel together in Costa Rica, they experience ups and downs driven by new experiences, shared memories, and recent romantic woes. Teasing each other about past boyfriends, relying on each other to navigate unfamiliar surroundings, yet each also having issues with the constant presence of the other, their travels together are neither disastrous nor storybook perfect -- even if, in the moment, the vacation might briefly feel like it's turned into one extreme or the other.
It was great… "achieves a nuanced look at friendship, culture shock, romantic loss, and the pleasures and annoyances that arrive when friends travel together in close quarters. It's a satisfying, novella-length character study with a sense of time and place so vivid that its final frames will stick with you for days to come." Eric Allen Hatch, Maryland Film Festival
www.itwasgreatbut.com
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GETTING PREGNANT by Bodine Orban - 15 minutes, 2009
Director: Alexis Boling
Producer: Craig T. Wood, Alexis Boling, Bodine Orban Writer:
Writer/Editor: Bodine Orban
Cinematographer: Alexis Boling
Sound Design: Rick Lombardo, Lane Crouse
Original Music: Lauren Nagel & Jonathan Sanford
Cast: Bodine Orban, Casey Unterman, Collin Smith, Alison Weisgall and Mike Tenaglia
Synopsis:Laura Miller and her husband Adam are trying to conceive. But on their way to a dinner party, two run-ins on the street give Laura cause to question her life choices.
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Writer/editor/actress Bodine Orban of GETTING PREGNANT is a native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, an alumnae of Saints Peter and Paul high school and a graduate of Barnard College in New York. While still in high school, she had a leading role in Riders, written and directed by Doug Sadler. Orban currently resides in Brooklyn, where she works as an editor and actress. At the time of this screening, she will be in Bali on her honeymoon with her husband, and GETTING PREGNANT director, Alexis Boling.
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I CHOOSE DARKNESS by Karen Yasinsky - 8.5 minutes, 2009
With stop-motion puppet animation and scenes and characters from Robert Bresson's 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar, Yasinsky's process honors Bressson's method of rehearsing 'models' (people with no acting experience) to remove personal emotions. Expressiveness is found in raw imagery and sound, serving as residual, emotional documents, stripped from the film and imbued with the artist's own visual and metaphorical associations.
LA NUIT by Karen Yasinsky - 6.5 minutes, 2007
A puppet animation based on L'Atalante from 1934. In Vigo's film, the attraction between the young couple Jean and Juliette is strong but marriage to a barge owner proves difficult for Juliette and she runs off to Paris. Jean and Juliette get into their respective beds and yearn for each other in one of the most understated erotic sequences ever shot on film. This is where Yaskinsky's video begins. Romantic music, rushing water and old cartoon music from Betty Boop are used to show a romance, young, strange and intense.
LE MATIN by Karen Yasinsky - 4.5 minutes, 2007
A hand drawn animation based on the first few scenes of Jean Vigo's film from 1934, L'Atalante. Juliette is from a small village and leaves for the first time to live with Jean on his barge. The beginning of the film sets a surrealistic tone. The newlyweds set off on what appears to be a very long walk to the barge. This journey is the subject of my short animation.
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Karen Yasinsky is an artist working primarily with animation and drawing. Her video installations and drawings have been shown in many venues internationally including the Mori Art Musuem, Tokyo, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, NY, UCLA Hammer Museum, L.A., Kunst Werke, Berlin, the Sculpture Center, NY and at the Wexner Center in Columbus Ohio. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Foundation grant and teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Film/Media Studies. She is represented by Mireille Mosler, Ltd., NY and Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich. She is also a founding board member of the Gunk Foundation, a private foundation for public art.
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