BFFW 2018: Unvictiming: Women filmmakers reframe sexual violence

▽Unvictiming: Women filmmakers reframe sexual violence▽

Screening & panel discussion in cooperation with Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal.

‘In the past year, our culture has become suffused with stories of sexual violence: women's stories that span decades. Finally, we are listening and believing.

Yet, largely careless and titillating depictions of rape and sexual violence continue to dominate — ELLE, Nocturnal Animals, Gone Girl...

'Unvictiming' brings together largely overlooked women-directed short films on the subject, spanning five decades and including documentary, experimental and narrative modes. From Ana Mendieta to Jane Campion, 'Unvictiming' interrogates how we should (re)present sexual violence. It will be contextualised and framed by a post-screening discussion with filmmakers, activists and moderated by Another Gaze co-founder and editor Daniella Shreir.

▽Films▽

FEAR / 1973 / Jean Shaw / 5 min
Moffitt Building Piece / 1973 / Ana Mendieta / 3 min
After Hours / 1984 / Jane Campion / 24 min
Girls Daydream About Hollywood / 1992 / Jennifer Reeves / 5 min
A Trial, The Transcript / 2015 / Fiona Rukschcio / 10 min
Circle / 2017 / Jayisha Patel / 13 min
Big Sister / 2017 / Michal Gassner / 13 min
100 women I know / 2017 / Phoebe Montague / 13 min

More info:
http://berlinfeministfilmweek.com/program/

Panelists

Fiona Rukschcio is a Viennese multimedia artist, whose work includes experimental video. In her films, collages and projects, Fiona Rukschcio deals with the roles assigned to women, with identity construction, and with extreme emotional experiences. In 2012-3, Rukschcio had an exhibition entitled ‘Retaped rape’ at the Secession in Vienna, which included a frame-for-frame remake of Yoko Ono’s ‘RAPE’ (1969)

Dr. Christine Künzel is Endowed professor at the University of Hamburg in modern German literature. Her research is often concerned with the representation of rape and sexual violence in the written text. Before pursuing academia, she studied acting in Kiel and worked as an assistant director in Hamburg

Winnie M Li is an author, producer and activist, and a PhD researcher at LSE investigating how social media can help rape survivors heal. She has written widely on her experience of sexual violence and her debut novel on the subject, ‘Dark Chapter’, won the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize 2017

Nine Yamamoto-Masson is a French-Japanese artist, theorist, translator, community organiser, and activist. Her academic and artistic work examines the relationship between violence, power and institutionalised regimes of hegemonic knowledge within state-enforced cis-het-patriarchal racial hierarchies. She is an organiser of the activist group WHEREISANAMENDIETA. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam and currently an artist-researcher at Hiroshima City University.

Daniella Shreir (moderator) is founder-editor of Another Gaze, a feminist film journal and series of interviews with women filmmakers worldwide. She is currently working on a film by Elisabeth Subrin about actor Maria Schneider, who spoke out against her experience of sexual violence on Last Tango In Paris in the ’70s.

Trigger warning:
The films and conversations contain information about sexual assault and sexual violence that may be triggering.

Berlin Feminist Film Week is supported by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Svenska ambassaden i Berlin and Mobile Kino