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Girl Model

16/07/2012 - 18:37

The documentary Girl Model is really about models who are still girls. Not about adult women looking like a girl. The main protagonist, Nadya, is only 13 years old when she is scouted in Siberia to become a model in Japan. For her and her parents, this seems a great chance to leave Siberia and earn some money for the family.

Beroep: Geluidsman

27/06/2012 - 10:45

Ik ben geluidsman, tenminste zo heet officieel het beroep wat ik uitoefen. Op het moment dat ik mijzelf aanmeldde op de filmacademie vroeg een docent: “Waarom wil je geluidsman worden?” Het werd me duidelijk dat het beroep geluidsman uitgeoefend door een vrouw niet vanzelfsprekend is. De naam is uiteraard wel te veranderen naar geluidsvrouw of geluidspersoon, maar dit vind ik persoonlijk niet mooi klinken. Ik zeg daarom vaak: “Ik doe het geluid.”

The Women and the Generals op het Internationaal Vrouwenfilmfestival in Assen

12/03/2012 - 16:37

In mijn jonge jaren was ik actief binnen de vrouwen/ vakbeweging. Samen met andere bevlogen vrouwen, streden wij voor de verbetering van de positie van (werkende) vrouwen. Nooit is het in mijn hoofd opgekomen, dat je voor dit soort activiteiten vervolgd zou kunnen worden. Daar moest ik aan denken, toen ik afgelopen zaterdag, 10 maart, de film ‘The Women and the Generals’ zag tijdens het Internationaal Vrouwenfilmfestival in Assen. www.filmfestivalassen.nl

The Help: Feminist or Feel-Good movie?

05/01/2012 - 15:35

Last week I saw the film “The Help” based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel with the same title. As you will probably know, or might have heard from someone who read one of the 5 million copies that have been sold worldwide or who watched the film, the story takes place in the 60s and is about a white girl from a Southern state in the USA, Skeeter. Skeeter, together with a number of black maids, writes a book about the experiences of working in white households. For the first time, the relation between white families and black maids is described from the perspective of black maids.

How a peach ribbon turned pink…

30/11/2011 - 13:58

Over the last weeks, the work and finances of Pink Ribbon, the international breast cancer charity, have been much discussed in the Dutch media. As most people know, the discussion got stirred up by the documentary ‘Pink Ribbons, Inc.’ that was screened at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. In this documentary the practices of Pink Ribbon receive critical scrutiny on many different levels: their campaign with fast food chain KFC, not enough money going into research, their potentially hurtful discourse of cancer ‘survivors’ etc.

Shimmering Images: On Transgender Embodiment and Cinematic Aesthetics

10/06/2011 - 11:55

PhD Candidate Eliza Steinbock proposes in her study that transgender embodiment and cinematic images can be understood as related on the basis of their shimmering quality. She mobilizes the notion of “shimmering” to move back and forth between, on the one hand, trans corporeality and, on the other, the medium of cinema, as well as between the related disciplines of transgender studies and cinema studies.

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