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Friday, 2. February, 2018
15:00 Talk: The Woman and the Vampire - Sonia Lupher
What is the significance of the relationship between women and
vampires? Whether they are fans, victims, or predators themselves,
women enjoy a privileged erotic relationship to vampires
onscreen, perhaps out of a perverse affinity to blood. Sonia Lupher
from the University of Pittsburgh will explore these avenues with
particular attention to the European vampire, spanning the 1930s
with the Spanish Drácula (1931), the 1970s with Jesus Franco and
Jean Rollin’s respective vampire exploitation films, and culminating
with two Spanish short films directed by women: Jules D. by
Norma Vila and Asuntos Domésticos by Alexia Muiños Ruiz.
17:00 Shorts Program 2: Mind Games
The films in this program are mind-bending and disorienting
featuring characters wrestling with delusions or false
preconceptions. Time, memory, and loyalties cannot be trusted as
they are drawn by forces they cannot be sure are real, supernatural,
or imagined…
Brown Wreck-Loose (5:37)
Written and Directed by Tristian Montgomery, US, 2017
Olive, a troubled woman, goes for a drive one restless
night to quiet the obsessive thoughts that are swirling
around in her head, and finds that her troubles run
deeper than she thought.
(European Premiere)
Liz Drives (7:59)
Written, Produced, and Directed by Mia’kate Russell,
Australia, 2017
For estranged sisters Liz and Ellie being a family has
never been easy – but there are some horrors you
create yourself.