DeBalie@Rialto: Carmen y Lola
The film Carmen y Lola is the focus of this edition of De Balie@Rialto. Programme maker Parwin Mirrahimy will enter into conversation with filmmaker/writer Sophie Kurpershoek and anthropologist/activist/researcher/teacher Domitilla Olivieria bout lesbian cinema and intersectionality in film. How are lesbian women currently represented on the big screen? And in what ways do intersections between gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class come into play here? These and other questions will be answered using examples from recent lesbian cinema.
The conversation will be in English.
Carmen y Lola
Moving story about the impossible love between two Roma teenage girls, Carmen and Lola. Impossible because Carmen is supposed to get married and have many children.
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Domitilla (Domi) Olivieri is an anthropologist, activist, researcher and teacher in the field of gender studies, media and society. She is active in academic, artistic and activist spaces and has been involved for many years in feminist, queer and anti-racist and anti-capitalist militant activism.
Sophie Kurpershoek was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1989) and grew up in Pakistan and Turkey. She studied philosophy in Amsterdam, Tokyo and London and received her Master’s in Audiovisual Arts at the School of Arts Ghent with her short film Al was het maar voor even. She is currently writing her first feature length film, How to start a fire, with support from the VAF (Flanders Audiovisual Fund).
