Thorough Cleaning Triple Bill [electronic resource].

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Thorough Cleaning Triple Bill Sunday 27 November | Doors 7pm | Admission Free Kate Millett parle de la prostitution avec des féministes, 1975 by Syn Guérin & Catherine Lahourcade (France, 20mins) TBC Saute ma ville, 1968 by Chantal Akerman (Belgium, 13mins) Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080, Bruxelles, 1975 by Chantal Akerman (Belgium, 201mins) Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, recently subtitled in preparation for possible American release, is an ambiguous and difficult film but one that deserves serious consideration from both feminist and formalist critics. In presenting her portrait of a bourgeois Belgian housewife whose widowhood leads her to afternoon prostitution, Akerman elicits not only an intensely sensitive performance from Delphine Seyrig but startlingly contradictory responses from her audience as well. These responses of vehemence and passion and the film’s complex structure lead one to question Akerman’s politics and aesthetics. And such questions can only be answered in the context of the historiography and theory of women in the home: as workers who are essential in maintaining the capitalist system through production and reproduction, largely unrecognized and unpaid. The film raises further questions in terms of its contribution to the vital task of developing feminist art and feminist film language, providing a measure of how far we have come and of what remains undone…
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Syn Guérin
Catherine Lahourcade
Chantal Akerman
Jayne Loader
Luce Irigaray
Carla Lonzi
Monique Wittig
Maya Andrea Gonzalez