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Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation
Sam Decoste’s Mary & Myself from 2013 follows two Chinese Canadian women as they rehearse for a production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues13 where they are going to play...
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Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation
The animation uses first person narration to tell not only the story of the performance but also to call attention to the history of “comfort women”. More historical information...
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Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation
Albertine Zullo and David Toutevoix’s The Cannonball Woman (2017) is about Madeline, a woman who loves to fly through the air after being shot out of a cannon....
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Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation
She takes up a job as a bearded lady in a sideshow but eventually comes back to her partner. It would seem that she misses flying through the...
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A Formalism of Feeling: Queer Temporalities and Memory in PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
The temporal structure takes us from the film’s present to the past of memory, or what theorist Gilles Deleuze calls “a sheet of the past.”1 The opening credits are...
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A Formalism of Feeling: Queer Temporalities and Memory in PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
The film’s slowness is essential to its nuanced development of desire over time, but the queer optics of this timeliness are challenged by Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover’s arguments around the queer potentials...
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