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Кино FEM* RIOT: Pushing Boundaries Kyiv 2023-11-20 20:50:00
The patriarchy defines a woman to the extent that she fits within the countless limits and restrictions it sets. It defines and recognizes. Going beyond these boundaries through the traditional patriarchal lens means undermining one's "female" gender identity. Women who dare to do so still need to prove that they are women in order not to be marginalized by the social structure.
Over time, these boundaries expand, loosen, and weaken, which can make it seem as if we have achieved the desired equality or at least reached the finish line. However, being a woman still means keeping silent about many topics that constitute our everyday life, both physiological and psycho-emotional. Forced silence becomes a serious obstacle in the struggle for subjectivity and visibility, and we have to look for forms through which we can communicate to the world what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century in an environmentally friendly and safe way. Independent cinema is becoming one of them.
Each film in this program is a kind of protest practice, because it problematizes and highlights what is beyond the scope of conventional topics for public conversation: painful menstruation, breast shape variations, female homosexuality, fear of intimacy. But their most important role may be to deconstruct internalized boundaries in the perception of women themselves.
Over time, these boundaries expand, loosen, and weaken, which can make it seem as if we have achieved the desired equality or at least reached the finish line. However, being a woman still means keeping silent about many topics that constitute our everyday life, both physiological and psycho-emotional. Forced silence becomes a serious obstacle in the struggle for subjectivity and visibility, and we have to look for forms through which we can communicate to the world what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century in an environmentally friendly and safe way. Independent cinema is becoming one of them.
Each film in this program is a kind of protest practice, because it problematizes and highlights what is beyond the scope of conventional topics for public conversation: painful menstruation, breast shape variations, female homosexuality, fear of intimacy. But their most important role may be to deconstruct internalized boundaries in the perception of women themselves.
