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I want to make a film about women

Oct 27, 2019 · 12m
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'I want to make a film about women' is a speculative documentary love letter to Russian constructivist women. The new Soviet Union of the 1920s championed equality for women and great innovation in the creative arts. Until it didn't. Looking back at that time, history remembers the men who were celebrated and then shut down. But women were there, too, and they were influential, powerful and brilliant. 'I want to make a film about women' gazes in to a creative communal kitchen and watches these women transform it into a workshop, then a stage set, then a film, all the while juggling noisy men and the wolves of history. It imagines what the revolutionary women artists of the 1920s said, what they did, and what they might have created had it not been for Stalin's suppression.

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Richard James Allen
Dziga Vertov
Victoria Haralabidou
Esfir Shub
Liliya May
Lilya Brik
Victoria Carwin
Herself (voice)
Directed by Karen Pearlman

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Released
Original language
EN
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Production
The Physical TV Company, Ronin Films
Country
AU
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