Mykaela Plotkin, Through Foreign Eyes, 74 min., 2018
- Wednesday, February 17, 2021
- 7:00pm – 8:30pm
- Online with Zoom
Through Foreign Eyes (2018) by Mykaela Plotkin (Argentina / Brazil)
Screening dates: Feb 11 - 17, 2021
Discussion: Wednesday | Feb 17 | 7 - 8:30 pm | online *Date changed from Feb 23 as originally scheduled in our newsletter*
Follow this link to watch Through Foreign Eyes: https://vimeopro.com/cfmdc/mawa-2 Password: mawa2
This experimental photo essay is set in the context of Latin America, but the questions explored, such as immigration, family and memory, are universal. Using footage shot by those who emigrated from Recife, the director’s hometown in Brazil, Plotkin shows the problematic relationship between memory and family history. In the context of Canada, this film gives insight into the narratives of displacement and migration. Immigration is a process that complicates the definition of home and identity.
About FEMtastic Film Club
FEMtastic is MAWA’s new screening and discussion series! How do women filmmakers around the world understand and articulate their lived realities? What stories are told by women that reveal nuanced and multifaceted perspectives in patriarchal societies? Intersectionality in gender and culture will be at the core of the films presented. Whether experimental, documentary or fiction, these stories manifest how personal narratives can reveal greater political discourses. You don’t have to join the discussion group to watch the films. Links will be available one week before the screening dates. Watch your MAWA “Coming Up” email and website for details. After you have seen the films, you may choose to register to join series curator soJin Chun on Zoom to discuss them. She will ask key questions to explore each film and the under-represented histories they reflect.
Everyone is welcome to watch the films… links available one week before discussion. To register for the discussion group, contact soJin at [email protected] and put “FEMtastic Discussion” in the subject heading; spaces are limited.
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soJin Chun is a Toronto-based artist-curator who explores the alternative dialogues that emerge in between cultures and disciplines. She spent most of her happy childhood lost in translation, and her Korean diasporic experience living in Bolivia and Canada inspires her artistic and curatorial practice. Chun’s work explores artists, identities, spaces and narratives that exist outside of dominant representations. She aims to create spaces to present contemporary art that is socially engaged and relevant for communities with a lack of access to the arts while commenting on a greater social and/or political struggle. Collaboration is an essential part of her process, and she has worked extensively with BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ communities in Canada and South America.