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| From Chapter 35: Life Inside: La Coquille et le clergyman / The Seashell and the Clergyman / Germaine Dulac, France 1928. Screenshot from the Women Make Film website. |
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| From Chapter 36: The Meaning of Life: Now I'm Thirteen / ဆယ့်သုံးနှစ်မလေး / Shin Daewe, Myanmar 2014. Screenshot from the Women Make Film website. |
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| From Chapter 37: Love: Qing chun ji / / 青春祭 / Sacrificed Youth / Nuanxing Zhang, China 1986. Screenshot from the Women Make Film website. |
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14 hours – HD – 16:9
Festival premiere: 1 Sep 2018 Venice Film Festival
Finnish telepremieres of the 14 episodes: 3.3.2020, 10.3.2020, 17.3.2020, 24.3.2020, 1.4.2020, 8.4.2020, 15.4.2020, 22.4.2020, 29.4.2020, 6.5.2020, 13.5.2020, 20.5.2020, 27.5.2020, 3.6.2020
Corona lockdown viewings.
Yle Areena.
Viewed on a 4K tv set at home in Helsinki, 28 May 2020.
Episode 13/14: Life Inside, The Meaning of Life, Love
Jakso 13/14: Tärkeintä elämässä
Narrator: Debra Winger
Finnish / Swedish subtitles: Tiina Kähkönen / Sari Östman
Chapter 35. Life Inside / Ihmismieli / Vårt inre väsen
La Coquille et le clergyman / The Seashell and the Clergyman / Germaine Dulac, FR 1928
Krylya / Крылья / Wings / Larisa Shepitko, SU 1966 [unreleased in Finland]
The Future / Miranda July, DE/US/FR 2011 [unreleased in Finland]
Bhaji on the Beach / Gurinder Chadha, GB 1993 [unreleased in Finland]
Mikey & Nicky / Mickey and Nicky / Pelkojen yö (video title in Finland) / Elaine May, US 1976
An Angel at my Table / Enkelin kosketus / Jane Campion, NZ/AU/GB/US 1990
Film About A Woman Who... / Yvonne Rainer, US 1974 [unreleased in Finland]
La Zerda ou Les Chants de l'oubli / الزردة وأناشيد النسيان / La Zerda / Assia Djebbar, DZ 1983 [unreleased in Finland]
Chapter 36. The Meaning of Life / Elämän tarkoitus / Meningen med livet
Together / Lorenza Mazzetti, GB 1956 [unreleased in Finland]
Rusalka / Русалка / Mermaid / Rusalka [in Finland] / Anna Melikyan / Anna Melikian, RU 2007
Western / Valeska Grisebach, DE/BG/AT 2017 [unreleased in Finland]
Now I'm Thirteen / ဆယ့်သုံးနှစ်မလေး / Shin Daewe, MM 2014 [unreleased in Finland]
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna / The Meetings of Anna / Chantal Akerman, FR/BE/DE 1978 [unreleased in Finland]
Betoniyö / Concrete Night / Pirjo Honkasalo, FI/SE/DK 2013
Woman / Signe Baumane, cm, anim, US 2003
Rue Cases-Nègres / Sugar Cane Alley / Mustat kadut / Euzhan Palcy, FR/MQ 1983
Nimeh-ye penhan / نيمه پنهان / The Hidden Half / [Finnish release with English title] The Hidden Half / Tahmineh Milani, IR 2001
Chapter 37. Love / Rakkaus / Kärlek
Qing chun ji / Qingchun ji / 青春祭 / Sacrificed Youth / Uhrattu nuoruus / Zhang Nuanxing / Nuanxing Zhang, CN 1986
Gahanu lamai / ගැහැණු ළමයි / The Girls / Sumitra Peries, LK 1978 [unreleased in Finland]
Me and You and Everyone We Know / Minä, sinä ja kaikki muut / Miranda July, US/GB 2005
Testről és lélekről / On Body and Soul / Kosketuksissa / Ildikó Enyedi, HU 2017
Ghesse-ha / قصهها / Tales / Rakhshān Banietemad, IR 2014 [unreleased in Finland]
The Piano / Piano / Jane Campion, NZ/AU/FR 1993
Where I Am Is Here / Margaret Tait, cm, GB 1964
L'Intrus / The Intruder / Claire Denis, FR 2004 [unreleased in Finland]
An Education / An Education / Lone Scherfig, GB/US 2009
Ung flukt / The Wayward Girl / Nuoret syntiset / Edith Carlmar, NO 1959
Na-moo-eobs-neun san / 나무없는 산 / Treeless Mountain / So Yong Kim, US/KO 2008 [unreleased in Finland]
Mon roi / My King / Huuma / Maïwenn, FR 2015
Mustang / Mustang / Deniz Gamze Ergüven, FR/DE/TK/Qatar 2015
Mimangin / Mimang-in / Gwabu-ui nunmul / The Widow / 미망인 / Nam-Ok Park / Nam-ok Pak / Park Nam-ok, KO 1955 [unreleased in Finland]
Tou ze / 桃姐 / A Simple Life / Ann Hui, HK 2011 [unreleased in Finland]
Heart of a Dog / Laurie Anderson, US/FR 2015 [unreleased in Finland]
AA: Episode 13 of Women Make Film is a poetic web of associations. The series is like a smörgåsbord, a hors-d'œuvre, an antipasto, offering appetizers to unknown films that I must see.
Life Inside starts with Germaine Dulac taking us to the consciousness (and the unconscious) of a woman via superimpositions. Larisa Shepitko cuts to the clouds, and we realize that her heroine, a former ace pilot, dreams of flying. Gurinder Chadha lights up her Ferris wheel during a love scene. Jane Campion emphasizes Janet Frame's (Kerry Fox) insecurity via subtle camera movements. Since 1974, Hitchcock meta-films have grown into a subgenre. Yvonne Rainer creates what may be the first Hitchcock meta-film in Film About a Woman Who... in which we see a still frame montage from Psycho. Assia Djebbar's La Zerda is also a startling photomontage, this one about the Algerian tragedy. A haunting music track conveys the life inside. I must learn more about this key intellectual.
The Meaning of Life: the topics keep getting bigger! Lorenza Mazzetti's (1927–2020) Together is a study in communication – featuring two deaf-mutes. From Anna Melikian's Rusalka we see a scene set in a school for mentally disabled children who possess special abilities. In Valeska Grisebach's Western two Gastarbeiter of different backgrounds meet. Shin Daewe's Now I'm Thirteen is a vibrant chunk of life from Myanmar. What is it about? Pure being. Chantal Akerman witnesses pure solitude even in a sexual encounter. From Pirjo Honkasalo's Concrete Night we see the scene with its first credo about the meaning of life: only hope is to be feared. (The second credo will be: hope is all there is). The Latvian animator Signe Baumane's Woman offers a personal foundation myth of the birth of woman: a mummy carried on its back by a bull. In Euzhan Palcy's Rue Cases-Nègres another foundation myth is recounted by an old man to a young boy.
Finally, Love, the biggest of all. Nuanxing Zhang's Sacrificed Youth belongs to China's "scar dramas" covering the persecutions of the Cultural Revolution, made in the same year as Xie Jin's Hibiscus Town. Sacrificed Youth has been telecast in Finland but I have missed it. Poetic closeups in black and white are striking in Sumitra Peries's Gahanu lamai. The wife of the master of Sri Lankan cinema Lester James Peries is proven a masterful film-maker herself. In Miranda July's film a stroll along a sidewalk compresses an entire love story (with affinities with Abbas Kiarostami's Copie conforme). "Do you feel the attraction" is the question in Rakhshān Banietemad's Ghesse-ha. Nam-Ok Park's Mimang-in (The Widow) is the first Korean film directed by a woman. The widow refuses to conform to the Confucian tradition and "her love light goes out" (Cousins). The episode comes to a finale with Laurie Anderson's reckoning of her mother's love, narrated by herself in her richly evocative voice.
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