13 March 2014, 18.00
Galeria Arsenał power station
ul. Elektryczna 13, Białystok
the entrance at ul. Świętojańska
admission is free
Shirley – Visions of RealityAustria 2013, 92′
director: Gustav Deutsch
screenplay: Gustav Deutsch
camera: Jerzy Palacz
editing: Gustav Deutsch
music: Christian Fennesz, David Sylvian
cast: Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach, Florentin Groll, Elfriede Irral, Tom Hanslmaier
production: Gabriele Kranzelbinder
production: KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production
distribution: Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty
13 of Edward Hopper’s paintings are brought alive by the film, telling the story of a woman, whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations lets us observe an era in American history.
Shirley is a woman in America in the 1930s, ‘40s, ‘50s, and early ‘60s. A woman who would like to influence the course of history with her professional and socio-political involvement. A woman who does not accept the reality of the Depression years, WWII, the McCarthy era, race conflicts and civil rights campaigns as given but rather as generated and adjustable. A woman whose work as an actress has familiarised her with the staging of reality, the questioning and shaping of it; an actress who doesn’t identify her purpose and future with that of solo success or stardom but who strives to give social potency to theatre as part of a collective. A woman who cannot identify with the traditional role model of a wife yet longs to have a life partner. A woman who does not compromise in moments of professional crisis and is not afraid to take on menial jobs to secure her livelihood. A woman who in a moment of private crisis decides to stick with her partner and puts her own professional interest on the back burner. A woman who is infuriated by political repression yet not driven to despair, and who has nothing but disdain for betrayal. Shirley, an attractive, charismatic, committed, emancipated woman.
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