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San Diego Film Week: A Woman’s Place – Shorts Program / 90 mins

March 5, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

SAN DIEGO FILM WEEK: A Woman’s Place – Shorts Program

7:30PM | A Woman’s Place / 90 min program of shorts

Supporting and showcasing women on the big-screen is important now more than ever. This block features films that were made with women in prominent positions behind the camera. Whether it’s as a producer, director, DP or writer or editor, this block just goes to show you that A Woman’s Place is on the big screen!

In This Program


Blindness

ANNETTE CYR / A WOMAN’S PLACE / UNITED STATES / 2017 / ART, ARTIST, DISABILITY, DRAMA, ELDERCARE, WOMAN / 15 MINS

An artist struggles to finish her paintings for a major exhibition. Her father, going blind, moves in with her. That night she cannot see the stars. Her dealer cancels her upcoming show. She learns she has the same gene for blindness as her father. She rejects her father’s suggestion she do something else besides art. She hears him relearn to play a Chopin nocturne wonderfully. Inspired, she An artist struggles to finish paintings for a major show, as her father, now going blind, moves in with her. She learns she has the same gene for blindness. He has given up astronomy and relearns a Chopin nocturne. She refuses to do something else besides art. Inspired by his playing, she creates sparkling sculptures in wire, like the stars she can no longer see. works in wire, a visual and tactile medium. She looks at her new work with pride, sparkling in the dusk, not unlike stars in the night sky.

 


The Empire

SUSAN DAVIS / A WOMAN’S PLACE / UNITED STATES / 2017 / 6 MINS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the family Matriarch of a multimillion dollar pie conglomerate dies, the family is assembled to hear the reading of the will and thats when it all goes south.


I am DACA

Anibal Alcaraz | A Woman’s Place / United States / 2017 / Immigration, Latino, Social Justice / 10 mins / English / Color / Digital

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A documentary looking to humanize the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and shine a light on those closely affected by it.


Noticed

Javier Augusto Nunez | A Woman’s Place / United States / 2017 / 5 mins / English / Color / Cannon Digital

 

 

 

 

 

Renata’s addiction to social media and to being Noticed by men drives her boyfriend Nick insane triggering his deepest insecurities. Nick decides to convince his co worker Robert to make a move on Renata and prove her unfaithfulness.

When a man and a women’s need to be Noticed is greater than having a relationship the games begin.


Pass/Fail

cassidy mitchell, Tristan Vakili | A Woman’s Place / United States / 2017 / 6 mins / English / Color / 4k

 

 

 

 

 

Can robots learn to love?


Call Me Ma’am

GI Film FestivalA Woman’s Place / 4 mins

 


Transicion

Heriberto Murrietta y Fernanda Martinez | A Woman’s Place / Mexico / 4 mins

 

 

 

 

 


What’s My Line?

Nalini Asha Biggs | A Woman’s Place / United States / 2016 / art, Autism, Design, disability, Drawing, Experimental, Painting / 8 mins / Color / Digital

 

 

 

 

 

When I was little I never knew what to say. So, I drew. Since I was very, very small I’ve kept a small sketchbook with me. I take it with me everywhere. I draw the world, and sometimes I collage pieces of things. It’s never been for anyone else, my sketchbook. It’s just how I survive in a world that simple isn’t designed for me, an Autistic person. Because drawing is transformative. It’s meditative. This is a visual essay of what I experience when I hyperfocus on art, something only people like me can do. Drawing is the purest projection of my own soul.


 


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Event Details

Start:   March 5, 2018
Time:   7:30 pm
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As of July 1, 2023, the Museum of Photographic Arts and The San Diego Museum of Art have merged to become one unified institution. The Museum of Photographic Arts is now the Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art (MOPA@SDMA).

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