I remember when few years ago Ruined Heart, the earlier work of a Filipino independent artist, was shown at New Horizons Film Festival. Khavn, who was present at the festival, greeted the audience with a sexist rant about the fact that all the women in the room are whores and all men are gangsters who are supposed to subdue those whores. And the poetics of this inaccurate argument and the film were calculated for a great shock.
The film was based, according to the description, on the so-called “authentic experiences” of Lidong’s friends-entrepreneurs. How to measure the “authenticity” of such an experience? What does an inauthentic experience look like? Are there media that are not based on experience?
Before the screening of On Her Shoulders I was expecting a generic, typically sundancian, lovely-filmed (beautiful films about ugly problems – and problems which will not be cleared in this way and the picture will not be pleasant) story about another individual success (in this case Nobel Peace Prize for Nadia Murad).
TellTellingCinema is a non-cyclical series of podcasts devoted to cinema related issues.
In the second episode I talk about the 93th Academy Awards and the presence of disabled people during the gala.
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