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Award winner filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin presents her internationally acclaimed feminist shorts: SHULI, SWEET RUIN and MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983.
MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 (25 min.)
Internationally renowned actresses Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval recreate a 1983 French TV interview with the ground-breaking queer French actress Maria Schneider (1952-2011), which takes a turn when she’s asked about the traumatic filming of Last Tango in Paris with Bernardo Bertolucci and Marlon Brando a decade before. Taken together, they not only interpret Schneider’s words and gestures but inhabit them through their own identities—along with all those silenced, before and after. Produced by 5A7 Films, Paris.
SWEET RUIN (10 min.)
Sweet Ruin is an experimental adaptation of Michelangelo Antonioni’s unrealized script, Technically Sweet, written in the late ’60s, but never produced. Set in the Amazon and Sardinia, it was to star Jack Nicholson as T., a disillusioned journalist obsessed with guns, and Maria Schneider as “The Girl.” In two screens paralleling the dual plots of his script, Sweet Ruin imagines the ruins of Antonioni’s work, as if it was somehow actually filmed, but then lost and forgotten. Reclaiming and reinterpreting the original script, Subrin explores the psychological and gendered dynamics of relationships by blurring the lines between interiorized and externalized states of being and casting an actress in both the Nicholson and Schneider role.
SHULIE (36 min.)
Staging an extended act of homage, as well as a playful, provocative confounding of filmic propriety, Subrin and her creative collaborator Kim Soss resurrect a little-known 1967 documentary portrait of a young Chicago art student, who a few years later would become a major figure in Second Wave feminism, and author of the radical 1970 manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. A cinematic doppelganger without precedent, Elisabeth Subrin’s Shulie uncannily and systemically bends time and cinematic code alike, projecting the viewer 30 years into the past to rediscover a woman out of time and a time out of joint—and in Subrin’s words, ‘to investigate the mythos and residue of the late 60s.’ (Gavin Smith, The 26th New York Film Festival)
About Elisabeth Subrin:
Elisabeth Subrin is a New York-based award-winning director and artist. Her critically acclaimed films and video installations have been featured in numerous festivals and exhibitions globally, including solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Harvard Film Archives, and the Vienna Viennale. Subrin’s 2016 award-winning feature narrative, A Woman, A Part, had its world premiere in competition at The Rotterdam International Film Festival and traveled to festivals throughout Europe, the US, and Asia. It was released theatrically in 2017. Her new French short film, Maria Schneider, in 1983, starring Manal Issa, Aissa Maiga, and Isabel Sandoval, had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival and its North American premiere at The 60th New York Film Festival. She is currently developing her feature-length biopic about the ground-breaking queer actress Maria Schneider (1952-2011) and is a professor of film and Media Arts at Temple University.
Thursday, October 13 @ 1 p.m.
