Elena Gorfinkel
Not Only: Barbara Loden and the Constellations of Feminist History
How does one write a feminist history of a filmmaker who has made a single feature? Espe- cially in light of the difficulties women have faced within film industrial models that privilege feature length, narrative cinema? Actor, director, and writer Barbara Loden made the landmark independent film Wanda (1970) yet struggled to make additional features before her early death from cancer in 1980. In her lecture, Elena Gorfinkel (King’s College London) delves into Loden’s creative career beyond Wanda, in the context of recent scholarship on the incomplete and unfinished work in women’s film history, notions of “minor” cinemas, and speculative approaches to the historical person. Understanding Loden as an artist who sought to develop her own idiom for the figuration and embodiment of vulnerability, she examines a diverse corpus of archival material.
12.12.2023 Berlin
18:00 Kino Arsenal
18:00 – Kino 1
Lecture by Elena Gorfinkel
20:00 – Kino 1
Screening: Shorts and Documentaries by and with Barbara Loden.