Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Program 17: Family Portraits/Relational Exercises

Program 17: Family Portraits/Relational Exercises includes a spectrum of diaristic films—from uncanny documentary to autobiographical re-enactments—that manifest different ways filmmakers choose to represent their relationships to family and, more broadly, to home (both literal and conceptual) through cinematic language.

Screening: Objection (1974, 16mm film) by Marjorie Keller, 10:28,30 (2019, 16mm film shown on DV) by Paige Taul, Natural Disasters (2023, DV) by Tiffany Jiang, Colorin, Colorado (2021, 16mm film shown on DV) by Paula Lovo, Canada (2007, 16mm shown on DV) by Anjali Sundaram, I've known I was a barren woman since the day I was born (2020, DV) by Sister Chapman, and ML05 and by Susmita Talukdar (2023, DV)