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Dog Lady, dir. Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás, Argentina 2015
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The dog is apparently man's best friend, but what about its relationship to women? The immaculately groomed purebreds and dry humour of Good Girl... Sit Down! might seem miles apart from the languor of Dog Lady and its pack of mutts, but in both films, dogs figure as an important part of a woman's search for beauty and freedom.
In Good Girl... Sit Down!, Anne Haugsgjerd sets audio of a conversation with her psychoanalyst in relation to dog shows, breeding, childhood memories, and spectacularized femininity. With anger and humour, the filmmaker confronts the images she has made and the images to which women are asked to conform.
Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás's Dog Lady unfolds across the seasons on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where a woman (played by co-director Llinàs) lives alone with her pack of scruffy dogs. With an unassuming grace, the film offers a quiet ode to the freedom of going feral.
With a commissioned essay by Siavash Minoukadeh.
In Good Girl... Sit Down!, Anne Haugsgjerd sets audio of a conversation with her psychoanalyst in relation to dog shows, breeding, childhood memories, and spectacularized femininity. With anger and humour, the filmmaker confronts the images she has made and the images to which women are asked to conform.
Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás's Dog Lady unfolds across the seasons on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where a woman (played by co-director Llinàs) lives alone with her pack of scruffy dogs. With an unassuming grace, the film offers a quiet ode to the freedom of going feral.
With a commissioned essay by Siavash Minoukadeh.
Programme:
Good Girl... Sit Down!, dir. Anne Haugsgjerd, Norway 1991, 17 min.
Dog Lady, dir. Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás, Argentina 2015, 95 min.
Good Girl... Sit Down!, dir. Anne Haugsgjerd, Norway 1991, 17 min.
Dog Lady, dir. Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás, Argentina 2015, 95 min.
The Machine That Kills Bad People is, of course, the cinema – a medium that is so often and so visibly in service of a crushing status quo but which, in the right hands, is a fatal instrument of beauty, contestation, wonder, politics, poetry, new visions, testimonies, histories, dreams. It is also a film club devoted to showing work – ‘mainstream’ and experimental, known and unknown, historical and contemporary – that takes up this task. The group borrowed their name from the Roberto Rossellini film of the same title, and find inspiration in the eclectic juxtapositions of Amos Vogel’s groundbreaking New York film society Cinema 16.
The Machine That Kills Bad People is held bi-monthly in the ICA Cinema and is programmed by Erika Balsom, Beatrice Gibson, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Ben Rivers.
The Machine That Kills Bad People is held bi-monthly in the ICA Cinema and is programmed by Erika Balsom, Beatrice Gibson, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Ben Rivers.
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06:30 pm
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
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