Ann Marie Fleming

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Ann Marie Flemings Films

• Gender, Memory and Survival

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Questions

• The Films Weve Watched
• For the Students
• For Director Fleming

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Films

• 1. Stickgirl Female Artist
• great expectations. (1997)
• amfs tiresias (1998) ??
• i love my work (1994)
• drumstix
• 2. Desire, Life and Survival
• you take care now (1989)
• new shoes an interview (1990)
• Pleasure film (ahmeds story) (1995)
• blue skies 2002 (2002)
• buckingham palace (1993)

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Films

• 3. Memory and Family (see last weeks outline)
• waving
• Pioneers of X-Ray Technology

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Questions for the Students

• 1. Stickgirl Female Artists
• In revising the story of Tiresia, what does the
  film say about different genders experience of
  sexuality?
• How do the films such as Great Expectations,
  Drumstix and I Love My Work, present female
  artists?

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Questions for the Students

• 2. Desire, Life and Survival
• How is pleasure defined (Pleasure film) ? How
  are accidents survived (you take care now blue
  skies )?
• How is reality contrasted with fantasy images?
  Why does the interview have to be finished in
  five minutes?

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Questions for Director Fleming

• At the end of Buckingham Palace, does the
  Executor get to kill the Perfect Western Man?
• Your interviews are not just interviews you tend
  to mix them with some other images and words
  (animations, some narration and some other
  footage). Thats why for me these films present
  a central theme, but then also several related
  ideas. In New Shoes when did you come up with
  the idea of media voyeurism? Before or after the
  interview? How about Pioneers of X-Ray
  Technology?

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Female Artists

• Great Expectationsfrustrations and dreams

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Female Artists

• I Love my Workburdens in daily life ? rejected
  by painting the door

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Female Artists

• Drumstix

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Tiresia

• Women do have better sex, but there is no other
  benefit to it.

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Tiresia

• Cassandra gets a better vision and loves it.

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You Take Care Now

• Two parts about a rape and an accident, with
  some repetitions of words and images
• Mental and Disparate Visual Images of intrusion,
  male violence and lost dignity

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You Take Care Now

• Repetitions Images of women

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You Take Care Now

• Survival
• Whatever it was, Alice fell quickly through it.
  
• ending of Part I . . .Your friend from the
  train is there, and asks you how your day was?
  You say, "I had a really bad day, a really bad
  day? But then you look down at yourself, and you
  are all in one piece, and you think, at least I'm
  still okay.

• End of Part II And you wonder what you ever did
  to get raped and run over in one lifetime. And
  you realize that there is only one.

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You Take Care Now

• Memory and Representation (2)
• Part I So, you take a picture of yourself so
  that you can remember what the Mona Lisa looks
  like when she realizes Leonardo is just another
  letch.

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You Take Care Now

• Memory and Representation (2)
• Part II Ross takes a picture of you. You lie
  there, small and helpless and black and white.
  And it looks like this
• . . .
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• And you think, wow, pictures don't tell you
  anything.

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Pleasure Film

• life unexpectedly changeful
• Happiness is so elusive
• Its nature's so abusive
• that the moment things start swinging right
• Apprehension wraps you tight.
• desire cannot be kept, or not what one needs
  (Ahmeds story)

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Blue Skies 2002

• Ritual of surviving trauma and
• Acceptance of difference cultures.

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New Shoes Reality vs. Fantasies

• Reality
• -- how different people deals with breaking up
  differently. This woman cannot remember the
  lovers name, but her ex-boyfriend seems to be
  obsessive and violent.
• -- Her memory quite detailed.

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New Shoes Reality vs. Fantasies

• Fantasies 1) cannot go home 2) birds flying up
  when she was shot and faced the sky

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Class Announcements

• Pre-Evaluation
• The Novels
• Next weeks readings Handouts (Tricks with
  Mirror CanLit This is a Photograph of Me
  Cape Breton is the Center of Thought Control)
  and Decline of the American Empire

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