‘Meet the Artist: Laura Mulvey’

Film theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is the big guest of this programme parallel to the exhibition on Chantal Akerman. She is one of the most important theorist of the theory of the gaze and, more particularly, the 'male gaze'. The theories of Mulvey had a great influence on Akerman. For the book 'Chantal Akerman Retrospective Handbook', Mulvey wrote the foreword, where she underlines the effects of Akerman's cinema on the film community.

On 11 May, Laura Mulvey will give a speech on Chantal Akerman, on her influence in cinema from theory till filmmaking practice. After the speech, she will have a conversation with Daniella Shreir, member of selection committee of the Quinzaine des Realisateurs and co-founder of Another Gaze magazine, before launching the screening of Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen.

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti by Laura Mulvey et Peter Wollen
​​​​​​​This tautly structured documentary sheds light on the work of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Italian photographer Tina Modotti, women icons of the Mexican Renaissance. The film not only explores the two women's artworks, but also includes rare footage of Modotti in the 1920 Hollywood film The Tiger's Coat and offers some exquisite home movie shots of Frida Kahlo and Mexican muralist Diego Rivera at their Blue House in Mexico City.