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Jessica Dunn Rovinelli

 

Film screening: 14h CEST, Guest lecture: 16h CEST 

Film Academy | Kodak Kino 

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna 

Zoom-Link: https://akbild-ac-at.zoom.us/j/64593034544

 

This masterclass will discuss the filmmaker’s opinion about the difference between feminist and pro-trans labor practices and formal and aesthetic practices, and how, if at all, the bridge these concerns.

Jessica will discuss the difficulty of making films as a transgender woman in America and her own beliefs about how to best build a labor practice in the film industry that will enable jobs for and films by underrepresented individuals. This will be contrasted against the dubious politics of representation, and by an investigation of if film form and narrative itself can contribute to liberation or politics. Her concerns will be illuminated through her experience making two feature films and several shorts before and after transition, and by her understanding of what the experimental form of her films is capable of achieving or not.

Jessica Dunn Rovinelli is a film director, photographer, editor, colorist and critic based in New York. She is the director of two award-winning feature films and several shorts, which played at festivals including New Directors/New Films, Berlinale, IndieLisboa, and BAM Cinemafest. Rovinelli is also a recipient of grants from the Centre national des arts plastiques (Paris), New York Foundation for the Arts, and Film Independent. In 2019, she was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

This event is part of »Counter-Images | Counter-Narratives: Feminist Aesthetics in Art and Cinema« – a seminar and interdisciplinary dialogue between the Vienna Film Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Prof. Dr. Christine Lang / Prof. Constanze Ruhm).  

This is a blended event: Jessica Dunn Rovinelli will be present via Zoom while Constanze Ruhm, Christine Lang and the audience will be present at the Kodak Kino at Film Academy.