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Terra Femme: A Live Film Lecture-Performance
Sun 12:00 AM
Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134, USA
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Ad Hoc Cinema in association with Coral Gables Art Cinema presents Terra Femme (2021) a live film lecture-performance by Courtney Stephens with music by Sarah Davachi. A film essay comprising rare women’s amateur travelogues from the 1920s-50s; an inquiry into early non-fiction Cinema. Terra Femme is a live documentary presented as a live lecture-performance, similar to the way these films might have been exhibited nearly a hundred years ago when they were shot. Courtney Stephens weaves together, alongside a sobering score by composer Sarah Davachi, questions of female authorship, cinematic excavation, and the Western gaze...complicating the freedoms these women experienced while traveling…