Feminist Film Criticism Laboratory

Date

Schedule

On Thursdays, 19:00–22:00

Place

Zoom

DESCRIPTION

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is seeking participants for a laboratory of feminist film criticism.

It is designed for practicing authors writing about cinema and has been developed together with the film journalist Ksenia Ilyina. The laboratory will involve the study of the ethics and methodology of feminist approaches to writing.

At the meetings, participants will learn about various strategies and tools for the critical analysis of films and put them into practice, discuss the phenomenon of the female gaze and the history of feminist film criticism, and experiment with artistic writing methods.

Meetings will take place every Thursday between July 6 and August 24 and there will be eight in total. The themes will be published in advance and the participants in the discussions will be announced no later than two weeks before the event.

COURSE LEADER

Ksenia Ilyina is a film journalist, teacher, and curator with an MA in Art Criticism from the Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University. She is the web editor of the journal Iskusstvo kino, co-curator of the film journalism course at the School of Arts and Creative Industries, and was a member of the jury for the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival (2020).

OPEN CALL

Participants will be selected through an open call.

Applications: June 1–26 inclusive

Results: By June 30 (through a response by email or messenger)

Start date: July 6

To take part in the open call, please submit:

— a letter with brief information about yourself, links to your texts, posts, and publications (if applicable), and an explanation of why you would like to take part in the laboratory (up to 3,500 characters with spaces);

— a review of a film where, in your view, the story and the characters are revealed to the viewer through the female gaze (up to 2,500 characters).

Applications should be sent to cinemacourse@garagemca.org

The number of participants in the group is limited to 15 people.

HOW TO TAKE PART

Meetings will take place online via Zoom.