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28/7/2003

Screenings

Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

Screenings for 'And the One Doesn't Stir without the Other'

Tuesday 29th July 7:00pm

Fuego de Tierra
Kate Horsfield, Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz and Branda Miller, 1887 52 minutes colour, sound
A portrait of the life and work of Cuban born artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta used her own body, the raw materials of nature, and Afro-Cuban religion to express her feminist political consciousness and poetic vision. Interview footage with Mendieta and her own filmed records of her earthworks and performances are incorporated to render a vivid testament to her energy and talent.

Through the Large Glass
Hannah Wilke 1976, 10 mins clour, silent
Through the Large Glass documents one of Wilke's most effective and well-known performances, in which she performs a deadpan striptease behind Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Dressed in a fedora and a white suit, and evoking the style of 1970s' fashion icons such as Helmut Newton and Yves Saint-Laurent, Wilke strikes a series of poses and then strips. She is seen through the glass of the Duchamp sculpture. In her self-conscious affectation of the often absurdist posturing of a fashion model, Wilke willfully uses her own image and her sexuality to confront the erotic representation of women in art history and popular culture.

So Help me Hannah
Hannah Wilke, 1982, 29 mins, colour, sound
This documentation of a 1982 event at the A.I.R. Gallery in New York features a riveting performance by Wilke, who is nude (except for high heeled-shoes) and aiming a gun. As she stalks the performance space like Emma Peel crossed with an exotic dancer, two cameramen follow her, recording her every movement. Dissonant music and a voiceover text about art, violence, power and gender provide the aural counterpoint to her often provocative physical gestures.

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Thursday 31st July 7:00pm

Measures of Distance
Mona Hatoum, 1988, 15 mins, colour, sound
Palestinian-born artist, Mona Hatoum explores the renewal of friendship between mother and daughter during a brief family reunion in Lebanon in 1981. Through letters read in voice-over and Arabic script overlaying the images, the video explores the complexities of mother-daughter relationships in relation to exile and political conflict in Lebabnon.

Riddles of the Sphinx
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 1977, 92 mins, colour, sound
One of the most visually stimulating, theoretically rigorous films to emerge from the 1970s, this landmark fusion of feminism and formal experimentation seeks to create a non-sexist film language. Its title figure, the legendary creature of antiquity, terrorized Thebes and self-destructed only after Oedipus correctly answered her riddle. Invoking and challenging traditional interpretations of the Oedipus story as a movement from matriarchal culture to patriarchal order, the film also probes representation in film itself. The central narrative section, about Louise, a middle-class woman, and her four-year-old daughter Ana, is an inquiry into the arbitrary nature of conventional film techniques that captures Louise's struggles with motherhood in a patriarchal society.

All screenings are free of charge

Venue: The Ormeau Baths Gallery
18a Ormeau Avenue BT2 8HS
Belfast

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