UnLimited Girls: Film Screening and Discussion About Young Women, Feminism, India, and the Future
Emily Meghan Morrow Howe, Nandini Manjrekar
Tue Jan 24, 04-06:00pm, 14E-310
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
Nandini Manjrekar, who teaches the Women's Studies class "SP.409: Women and Global Activism in Art, Media, and Politics," will lead a discussion after the film.
UnLimited Girls (Documentary, 94 min, English, Hindi, Marathi) is an exploration of engagements with feminism. Told through the conversations of a narrator called Fearless who starts accidentally in a chatroom and embarks on a journey where she encounters diverse characters, the film uses a personally reflective tone and playfully eclectic form, mixes non-fiction and fiction, to ask questions about feminism in our lives: why must women lead double lives, being feminist but not saying they are.
Web: http://www.sawnet.org/cinema/?Vohra+Paromita
Contact: Emily Meghan Morrow Howe, 14E-310, x3-8844, womens-studies@mit.edu
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Chicks Make Flicks: Film Screenings and Discussions
Emily Meghan Morrow Howe, Women in Film and Video/ New England
Thu Jan 12, 07-10:00pm, 6-120
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
A screening of the documentary Rolling (71 min, USA 2004) with a discussion afterwards with the director Gretchen Berland, MD.
The term "point of view" has never been rendered more poignant and carried more emotion than in Rolling, the new documentary by Gretchen Berland and Mike Majoros (Unfinished Symphony, NIFF 2001). In 2001 three people who use wheelchairs were given camcorders to depict, for eighteen months, their struggle to maintain independence with dignity from four feet off the ground. Rolling is a wonderful example of the unique power of the documentary as information, advocacy, and art as it takes us into a world the non-disabled may have not looked at quite this way before.
Web: http://www.medicineatyale.org/v1i1_june2005/filmmaker.html
Contact: Emily Meghan Morrow Howe, 14E-316, 617.253.8844, womens-studies@mit.edu
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