上海美国中心 | Shanghai American Center 女性电影人的女性凝视第八场:面向未来 The Female Gaze of Women Filmmakers Talk Series Session 8: Towards the future 时间:11月30日,周三,18:30Time: Wednesday, November 30, 18:30 参与方式:登录Zoom客户端输入会议号16015840305Online access: You can join Zoom app using Meeting ID 16015840305什么是“女性凝视”?它的涵义究竟是什么?为什么越来越多的女性电影人/创作者引用这项术语来诠释她们的作品?看还是被看、观察还是被观察,注视的背后是否存在着有意识的选择?What’s the “female gaze”? What does it mean? Why are there more and more women filmmakers/creators using this term to explain their work? Looking or being looked at, observing or being observed, is there a conscious choice behind the gaze?11月30日,在“女性电影人的女性凝视”论谈系列的最后一期,影像制作人 Sophia Liu 将对话艺术家兼编舞Olga Merekina,通过她们的作品探讨“女性凝视”作为未来视角的可能性。他们将通过影像制作、现场表演、身体运动等话题与我们分享她们作品背后的艺术理念和创作过程。On November 30, the last session of our talk series “The female gaze of women filmmakers,” filmmaker Sophia Liu will have conversation with artist and choreographer Olga Merekina, to discuss the “Female gaze” as a possibility for future perspectives through their work. They will share with us the artistic concepts and creative process behind their work, through topics such as filmmaking, performance, body, and movement.活动语言为英文。This event will be conducted in English.关于嘉宾 About the Speakers
Sophia Liu
Sophia Liu 是一位导演、制片人和编剧。她曾旅居巴黎学习艺术史、电影、戏剧和传播学,新索邦大学戏剧研究硕士学位。作为女性影像制作人,她的个人作品经常涉及性别问题、爱情中的范式转移和诗意视角等。她是世岚文化的创始人,通过视听和文化艺术项目专注于艺术和文化领域。Sophia Liu is a filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. She has studied art history, cinema, theatre, and communications in Paris. She holds a master’s degree in theatre studies from University of Sorbonne Nouvelle. As a woman filmmaker, her personal works often address gender issues, paradigm shift in love and poetic perspective etc. She is the founder of SL Studio, with focus in art & culture fields through audiovisual and cultural / art projects.
Olga Merekina
Olga Merekina 是一位旅居上海的编舞、艺术家和教育工作者。她于2014年毕业于中国美术学院(杭州)跨媒体艺术学院。她着迷于将身体运动作为一种教育和艺术媒介——一种认识、思考和告知的方式。她的硕士论文探讨了通过舞蹈进行跨文化交流的问题。她的艺术项目探索社会和环境问题,作品曾在上海昊美术馆、上海当代艺术馆、上海玻璃博物馆和乌镇戏剧节上展演。Olga Merekina is a choreographer, artist and educator based in Shanghai. She graduated from the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou) in 2014. She is fascinated by movement as an educational and artistic medium — a way of knowing, thinking, and informing. Her master's thesis explored the problems of intercultural communication through dance. Her artistic projects explore social and environmental issues, while her works were presented in HOW Art Museum, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai Museum of Glass, and Wuzhen Theater Festival.关于本系列 About this Series当一个女性用自己的眼睛看世界,用自己的想法来表达时会发生什么?主宰式的“男性凝视”与观察和冥想式的“女性凝视”有什么区别?当一个女人思考、写作、渴望和创造时,在这种“女性凝视”背后她究竟想要表达和实现什么?What happens when a woman looks the world with her own eyes, and expresses by her own thoughts? What’s the difference between the “male gaze” that dominates and the “female gaze” that observes and contemplates? When a woman thinks, writes, desires, and creates, what is she trying to say and achieve indeed behind this “female gaze”?本系列我们将邀请12位来自不同国家、不同文化背景的女性电影人、作家和艺术家,将通过8场系列探讨,与我们分享她们作为女性创作者的创作历程和生活经历,引发思考。无论是独自一人还是与另一位嘉宾对话,她们都将帮助我们“回转视线”,发掘我们每一个人自身拥有的内在创造力。For this series, we will invite 12 women filmmakers, writers and artists from different countries and cultural backgrounds, are going to share with us their creating process and life experiences as women creators, through 8 sessions of talk series event. Whether alone or in conversation with another, the guest speakers will help us “turn the look back”, to discover the creative source power that we all have in us.“当作为女性不再是一份受保护的职业时,任何事情都可能发生。”英国作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫说。所有性别主体都可以用女性凝视创作电影。所有的女性凝视都在以其独一无二的独特性表达着某种意识和觉醒。这个探讨系列活动将采取艺术交流和分享的形式,而非纯粹学术性的理论讲座。我们将聆听这些女性影像艺术创作人的真实故事,从“道格玛95”电影运动到当代纪录片、故事片和艺术视频创作的幕后故事。这些常常身兼多职、跨界于不同艺术领域的:作家、导演、制片人、演员、摄影指导、编舞、编剧、诗人、艺术家……这些女性创作者们将用她们的艺术、思想和体验帮助我们以全新的视角展望未来。“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.” said the British writer Virginia Woolf. All genders can create films with a female gaze. All female gaze expresses a certain awareness and awakening in its singular uniqueness. This talk series will take an approach of artistic exchange and sharing, rather than an academic and theoretic lecture. We’ll hear the women filmmakers’ authentic creating stories, from the “Dogma 95” film movement to the behind-scenes of the contemporary documentary, fiction, and art video production. Often multi-talented and crossing different art forms: writer, director, producer, actress, cinematographer, choreographer, dramaturge, poet, artist… These women creators will use their art, thoughts, and experiences to bring us a new perspective towards the future.