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TEACHING WOMEN’S FILMMAKING

TEACHING WOMEN’S FILMMAKING

Date: 16-17 April 2021/ Friday - Saturday

Time: 14.45 - 20.00 (GMT +3)

Zoom


The conference is organized by İstanbul Bilgi University Department of Film and Television. This virtual conference marks Istanbul Bilgi University’s third annual event dedicated to women and media. The two-day event will include both academic papers and video essays that focus on pedagogy and audiovisual criticism. Friday 16 April will have a zoom session of three panels and another session featuring the keynote from film scholar and video essayist Catherine Grant: “Making nearby? On teaching and unlearning women’s filmmaking through the audiovisual essay.” Saturday 17 April will have another zoom session of three panels and a final session in a roundtable format, dedicated to Teaching Agnès Varda and chaired by Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, author of the groundbreaking book To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema (1990).


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PROGRAM

TIME (GMT +3)

Friday, 16 April
[14:45 – 18:30 Zoom Session I, 18:30 Zoom Session II ]

ZOOM SESSION

I

  

14.45-15.00   WELCOME: Aslı Tunç, Istanbul Bilgi University
 

15.00-15.50   INTERDISCIPLINARY PEDAGOGIES

                          Moderator: Ebru Çiğdem Thwaites Diken

  • Gina Marchetti, “#MeToo and Film School in the PRC: Yang Mingming’s Female Directors (2012) and Girls Always Happy (2018)”
  • Thomas Leitch, “A Chorus of Silences: Teaching Women’s Cinema in the Context of Other Marginalized Cinemas”
  • Ekin Pınar, “The Place of Women’s Filmmaking in an Interdisciplinary Architecture Curriculum”
  • Selen Kılınç, “Teaching as a Form of Performance: Yvonne Rainer and ‘Trio A’”
 

16.00-16.50    WOMEN’S AUTHORSHIP

                         Moderator: Diğdem Sezen

  • Maria Juko, “Adapting 19th Century Texts for the 21st Century Feminist Audience: Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and Autumn de Wilde’s Emma”
  • Leonie Gschwendtberger, “The (Un)Teachable Film Praxis of Trinh T. Minh-ha”
  • Nayibe Bermúdez, “Auteur Politics and Immaterial Labour in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama (2017)”
 

17.00-17.50     CREATIVE PRAXIS

                          Moderator: Feride Çiçekoğlu

  • Szilvia Ruszev, “Flashing Pain: Cinematic Articulation and Compassionate Gaze”
  • Kiki Loveday,”The Archive in my Closet”
  • Katie Bird, “young (women) filmmaker(s)” (video essay)
 

18.00-18.30      COFFEE / DISCUSSION BREAK [30 minutes]

ZOOM SESSION

II

  

18.30                  KEYNOTE

Catherine Grant, “Making nearby? On teaching and unlearning women’s filmmaking through the audiovisual essay”

Moderator: Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
 

TIME (GMT +3)

Saturday, 17 April
[14:45 – 18:30 Zoom Session III, 18:30 Zoom Session IV]

ZOOM SESSION III

  

14.45-15.00      SUM-UP OF THE FIRST DAY: Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
 

15.00-15.50      DOCUMENTARY

                            Moderator: Şirin Fulya Erensoy

  • Lorena Cervera, “A Film by Cine Mujer: A Video Essay” (video essay)
  • Jolene Mairs Dyer, “Kim Longinotto: Theorizing the Female Gaze in Relation to Intersubjectivity and the Auteur in Documentary Practice”
  • Esra Yıldız, “Remembering Through Films: Women Documentary Directors in Search of Lost Past”
 

16.00-16.50      THEORIZING WOMEN IN FILM

                            Moderator: Kate Ince

·Estrella Sendra Fernández, “Film As Sound Art: Embracing Love through Extradiegetic Sound in Nadine Labaki’s Caramel” (video essay)

·Katerina Papakyriakopoulou, “Social Realism and the Female Gaze in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank”

·Ipek Altun, “A Life Cycle Becoming Purified: No Home Movie (2015)”

·Evaguelia Diamantopoulou, “Issues of Presence and Absence of the Female Figure in the Artistic and Filmic Portrait”
 

17.00-17.50      NATIONAL CINEMAS

                           Moderator: Nadine Boljkovac

  • Colleen A. Laird, “Shifting the Syllabus: Reframing the Masculine Narrative in Japanese Cinema Classrooms”
  • José Duarte, “Tales of Alienation: Teaching Teresa Villaverde’s Films”
  • M. Mert Örsler, “Bilge Olgaç: A Turkish Political Filmmaker”
  • Swapna Gopinath & Neha Jindal, “Perceiving Patriarchal Forbearings of Filmmaking in the Indian Film Industry: Contextualizing Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne Do”
 

18.00-18.30    COFFEE / DISCUSSION BREAK [30 minutes]

ZOOM SESSION IV

  

18.30                ROUNDTABLE: Teaching Agnès Varda

                           CHAIR: Sandy Flitterman-Lewis

  • Libertad Gills, “Walking or Weeping” (video essay)
  • Kate Ince
  • Jenny Chamarette
  • Nadine Boljkovac
  • Alan Williams
  • Feride Çiçekoğlu
  • Colleen Kennedy-Karpat