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SUMMARY:Focus 1: … What a Way to Make a Living!
DESCRIPTION:How do you spend your days? How do you pay your way? “… What a Way to Make a Living!” is a programme about the reality of working life\, filtered through intersectional feminist lenses. Encompassing a mixture of archive and contemporary shorts from around the world\, this selection offers a transnational\, time-spanning insight into what it means to be a “working woman”\, exploring the ways in which our experiences of work are shaped by dynamics of class\, race\, gender and nationality. The programme also seeks to offer an expansive definition of what constitutes “worthwhile” labour in a hyper-capitalist\, post-industrial society. From the cleaners who invisibly facilitate our shiny\, frictionless lives to the factory workers who pay the physical and psychological cost of our addiction to cheap consumer goods\, these films remind us of the human cost of our appetites and desires.\nThe difficulties faced by working mothers\, the exhausting reality of the “second shift” and the ethical complications of outsourcing domestic labour to a low paid\, predominately immigrant workforce all feature prominently too\, reminding us of the enduring relevance of second-wave feminist arguments about the need to place greater value on “women’s work”. Yet despite the potential weight of the subject matter\, these films also serve as a wonderful showcase for shortform filmmaking in all its resourceful creativity\, embracing a range of documentary\, analogue and animation techniques to visually reflect the diversity of perspectives on display here.\nBy focusing on work done by women filmmakers\, “… What a Way to Make a Living!” is also built on a subtextual meta-reflection about the way female artistic labour has\, like so much “women’s work” often been belittled and sidelined within the history of film. The shorts here include work performed solo\, in partnership and as part of collectives. It includes examples of work by filmmakers who would build large bodies of work\, as well as by those whose filmmaking was cut short by the painful realities of the industry.\nUltimately\, this programme hopes to place a polyphony of women’s voices at the centre of the screen. While there are no easy answers here\, this approach does at least allow us to briefly down tools\, pause and take a moment to celebrate the many unseen women whose largely invisible labour has made our presence here in the cinema today possible.\n\nCurated by Rachel Pronger
LOCATION:Dresden\, Schauburg\, Chaplin-Saal
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