5 years ago

Tricky Women: Bright Spots & Pushing Boundaries

Chris Keulemans

Twelve short animations about girls and women being neglected, oppressed and confined to theirtraditional roles. And about the imagination that liberates them. One after the other, these women break free, across the full spectrum of animation technology in analog and digital, ranging from drawing and claymotion to computer-generated abstraction.

You’ll see an empty room, deserted after the old couple who lived there passed away, while you hear a poem repeating the hypnotic line: Still, you are there. And in the end, her name reappears, the lady who was never recognized during her lifetime. You’ll see a young woman dreaming of the seaside, where finally the stress of having to make it in the urban world of likes and smileys evaporates. You’ll see a little girl, captured in sweet children’s book images, rebelling against her über-tidy mother by wandering out into the rain and getting her hair all messed up. You’ll see abstract images, hypnotically drifting by, moving from strict limits to wild liberty.

This program has been put together by Tricky Women, the Austrian collective of female animation filmmakers. Since 2001, they have hosted the annual TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY REALITIES festival, focusing on animated films made by women. They also send compilations like these into the world, for festivals in Austria and beyond. They have been shown in Teheran and Beijing – and now they have made it to Pejë.

Presenting their work here is a fitting response to last year’s Anibar theme: 50/50, aiming for full gender equality in animation film – and the world in general. And it pays off: this is a gentle whirlwind of a program, taking you across a range of emotions, from rage and despair to rebellion and freedom, sometimes bitter, sometimes hilarious, but always hopeful.

 

Tuesday 16/07

14:00

Kino Jusuf Gërvalla

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