Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, French Studies Program, and Center for Moving Image Arts Present
Je suis Annemarie Schwarzenbach
7:15 pm – 9:15 pm EST/GMT-5
Je suis Annemarie Schwarzenbach is a biopic of the Swiss writer and world traveler of the 1930s, who had a short and intense fate. A free woman, homosexual, and physically androgynous, an anti-fascist activist and great bourgeois—Annemarie Schwarzenbach is an icon of modernity.
Biofilmography
Director Véronique Aubouy is a filmmaker and artist. She has directed some documentary films for Arte, but also fictional short films, such as The Silent of the Summer, chosen for Un Certain Regard (the Cannes Film Festival's official selection) and broadcasted by France's 2 et Canal +. She also directed a film marathon entitled Proust lu. In it, she winds through France and the world to shoot all sorts of people reading, page after page, Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Today, the film is 120 hours long, and it is still far from being completed. Proust lu is shown in museums, as an installation, and has been exhibited at La Force De l'art at The Grand Palais in Paris (2009), at the Kunsthalle in Vienna (2008), and at Villa Medicis in Rome (2007).
Synopsis
A film cast in Paris. Young actresses (and actors) try to incarnate the Swiss writer and traveler, Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942). In order to adopn the role of this emblematic and sulfurous figure of the late 30’s -- child of the “lost generation”, antifascist and gay -- the actors play scenes of her life, try to assume poses of hers from photos and talk about their own life through the prism of her fascinating and ambiguous personality. A portrait arises, singular and multiple, public biography as well as intimate memory, drawn up by the woman of the past as well as by the young generation of 2014. Slowly, a reconstituted and collective figure emerges and encounters an own fictitious life.
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Time: 7:15 pm – 9:15 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Ottaway Theater
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