It Is At This Point That the Need To Write History Arises (2024) Screening

Readings, Reflections and Resistance: Three Feminist Films by Constanze Ruhm
解讀、沉思與抵抗：Constanze Ruhm 女性主義電影三選
Supported by Austrian Consulate 項目由奧地利領事館支持

It Is At This Point That the Need To Write History Arises
Screening & QA w/ Constanze Ruhm 放映及映後談
03.29, 5-7:30PM
Kino, 1/F Eaton HK

It Is At This Point That the Need To Write History Arises
(2024, 96 minutes, in German and Italian with English subtitles)

Described by Ruhm as “an archive of feminist art itself”, It Is At This Point That the Need To Write History Arises is inspired by Carla Lonzi, who abandoned her prominent career as an art critic to delve headlong into the struggle for the emancipation of women in Italy in the 1970s. Using Lonzi’s interest in the extraordinary story of a group of 17th century French female artists called Les Précieuses as the starting point, Ruhm’s feature conjures a complex “alternative history” in which fictional objects – a crate of 360-year-old film material discovered in a former women’s Pr*son, for example – exist in parallel with real yet underacknowledged achievements of women in writing, painting and music. An exciting exercise about suppressed memories rekindled by poetic imagery, as we witness history being rewritten – or at least a clarion call for that to happen, here and now.

Constanze Ruhm will meet the audience after the screening.

《It Is At This Point That the Need To Write History Arises》
（2024年，96分鐘，德語及意大利語對白，英文字幕）

Ruhm 形容本片為「女性主義藝術本身的檔案」。電影靈感源自 Carla Lonzi，她當年毅然放棄顯赫的藝評人事業，全身投入 1970 年代意大利婦女解放運動的抗爭之中。Ruhm 以 Lonzi 對 17 世紀法國女性藝術家團體「Les Précieuses」的非凡故事為起點，建構出一段複雜的「另類歷史」。片中虛構的物件——例如在前女子監獄發現的一箱 360 年前的菲林素材——與現實中被忽視的女性在文學、繪畫及音樂上的成就並行存在。這是一場激動人心的實踐，透過詩意的意象重燃被壓抑的記憶，見證歷史被重寫——或至少是發出當下必須重寫歷史的號角。

Constanze Ruhm 將於放映後與觀眾見面。

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