Thursday, April 04, 2024 - 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2024
Public Lecture by Michela Bertossa (Ohio State University)
The Monstrous Mother Behind the Diva: Biopolitics and Abjection in Gallone's Fior di Male
11AM -Conant Hall 113
This talk will explore the role of women and mother figures in Italian silent cinema.
Prosopo me prosopo (Face to Face)
2PM -Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Roviros Manthoulis 1967 Greece 84 minlanguage: Greek with English subtitles **Introduction by Michael Leese (UNH)
?Dimitris embodies a typical working-class man who, despite holding a university degree, lives almost in poverty. His entrance into the house of a rich Athenian family signifies the beginning of his meeting with a new code of morals and values. This new code initially dominates his rather traditional beliefs regarding gender, sexuality, morality, entertainment, material culture and family relations. At the end of the film, however, Dimitris performs his own personal revolution and dares to abandon an environment which antagonizes his personality and depresses his manhood. In this way, he becomes a symbol of the rejection of modernity and upper-class lifestyle and, at the same time, a heroic prototype of working-class masculinity.
Achilleas Hadjikyriacou, Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema 1949-1967, Bloomsbury, London 2015
?https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/prosopo-me-prosopo/
Persepolis
4PM -Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Marjane Satrapi 2007 France/Iran 97 minlanguage: English
?**Introduction by Ann Zimo (UNH)
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year-old Marjane that we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable. As she gets older, Marjane's boldness causes her parents to worry over her continued safety. And so, at age fourteen, they make the difficult decision to send her to school in Austria. Vulnerable and alone in a strange land, she endures the typical ordeals of a teenager. In addition, Marjane has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism she fled her country to escape.
?https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/persepolis
Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GEsi-5P6M
Et J'aime a la Fureur (Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By)
7PM -Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Andre Bonzel 2021 France 95 minlanguage: French with English subtitles
**Introduction by Nicole Gercke (UNH)
Telling ones own story through the images of others is a nice idea, at once modest and generous, entailing all that film and only film can produce in terms of shared experience As Bonzel explains in the introduction to the film, which he himself narrates, he used family movies that he had been collecting all his life. In the images provided by dozens of anonymous amateurs showing good-natured, happy family photos, captured on celluloid and incorruptible, there emerges a personal story, more sombre, more fragmented, more mysterious; we soon understand the justification for resorting to the filmed happiness of others in the writing of that story
?https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/et-jaime-a-la-fureur/
Trailer (no subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyY2JaaE04o
