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It is grey and icy outside, so we are dedicating this month’s Spotlight to the colourful delights of Evelyn Lambart (1914 -1999), a trailblazing animator whose irresistible films never fail to make us smile. Pour yourself a hot drink, curl up somewhere cosy and prepare to be transported. |
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In these grey locked down times we could all do with a little bit of joy. The films of Evelyn Lambart, Canada’s first female animator, offer us just that. Rarely longer than a few minutes, these gorgeous vignettes have a deceptive staying power. At once familiar and bracingly strange, Evelyn’s unmistakeable cut out animations lodge themselves like a shard of stained glass in the heart. The first time we discovered her singular and intoxicating world we fell in love... |
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| | NEWS BERLINALE TALENTS We are so excited to share that we have been selected to take part in the prestigious Berlinale Talents programme (1-5 March). Our Rachel Pronger will be representing and spreading the Invisible Women gospel, and can't wait to chat archives, feminism & revolution with peers from around the world. Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for emerging film creatives from all over the world. | | |
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| | INVISIBLE WOMEN LOVE ALCHEMY FILM & ARTS The next event in Alchemy’s brilliant CONTINUE WATCHING strand will be If You Know You Know, an online shorts programme of Scottish Moving Image Makers featuring work by Margaret Tait, Alia Syed & Mandy McIntosh. Available to watch for free between 19 – 21 Feb and including a roundtable discussion at 7pm on 18 Feb. Find out more below: | | |
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| | INVISIBLE WOMEN LOVE Deutsche Kinemathek Tour One for our German speaking friends: On International Women's Day Deutsche Kinemathek curators Annika Haupts and Kristina Jaspers are taking us through their permanent exhibition, highlighting some of the female pioneers of German cinema history. We're excited to hear more about Lotte Reiniger, who created the first full-length animated film and reunite with Invisible Women darling, Leontine Sagan, who directed Mädchen in Uniform, a foundational lesbian film and the first feature with an exclusively female cast (read more about that here) 8 March at 7pm on Instagram (auf Deutsch) | | |
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| | INVISIBLE WOMEN RECOMMEND Ngozi Onwurah at GFF We love to see it! This year the Glasgow Film Festival launches ‘Welcome To’, a new programme with a focus on Black Scottish stories curated by Tomiwa Folorunso and Natasha Ruwona and featuring a mix of shorts and features, divided into two main focuses. Welcome To: A Focus on Black Women Filmmakers (available from March 5-8) will showcase Adura Onashile’s Expensive Shit, Elly M. Taylor’s Angelou on Burns and Ngozi Onwurah’s Welcome II the Terrordome. You may already have read about Ngozi's work on our first ever Spotlight. (Re)visit our profile of Ngozi and discussion of Terrordrome here | | |
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INVISIBLE WOMEN LOVE Sandra Lahire Our very own Rachel Pronger writes about her experience discovering the films of Sandra Lahire in Lockdown in this piece for Art Monthly, which was shortlisted for the Michael O’Pray award. 'Together, Alone' is a both a celebration of a key feminist filmmaker and an exploration of archive’s potential to bring comfort in times of crisis. | | |
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CRIS LYRA We are in awe of São Paulo based director and cinematographer Cris Lyra, after watching her delicate and so powerful short Quebramar (Breakwater). The film follows a group of young lesbian women as they travel to a remote beach to celebrate the New Year, a reflective trip during which they discuss sexual identity, their experiences and Brazil's social tensions. As a director, she says, Cris intends to explore the experience of not performing standard femininity in patriarchal society. We love MUBI's comparison with Barbara Hammer's lesbian cinema "where caring and community reign”. Keep your eyes peeled for Cris's new short film Ouça (Hear Me), a love story based on the letters of various queer women written during the pandemic. |
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The Hoarder / Evelyn Lambart 1969 / Canada / 7 min An absolute Invisible Women favourite, Evelyn Lambart's The Hoarder was one of the first films we ever screened. This charming comic cautionary tale about a greedy bird is a beautiful example of the stunning, intricate craftmanship that .defines this animation pioneer's work |
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