25th(2023)
Opening Film (1) | Discovery (12) |
Asian Shorts (20) | I-Teens (5) |
New Currents (25) | Korean Panorama, Here & Now (19) |
Polemics: Images, Describing to Resist (16) | Queer Rainbow (6) |
SIWFF 25 Special - RE:DISCOVER (7) | Feminist Collective (0) |
Women Making Art: Shouts and Whispers (9) | PARK Nam-ok's 100th Anniversary (5) |
In Memory of YOON Jeong-hee (2) | Documentary Ock Rang (1) |
Film X Gender (2) | Barrier Free (1) |
Courtney STEPHENS
Asian Premiere
The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s, delivered in voice-over by the filmmaker's mother, summoning a time of great uncertainty and offering a warning to the present.
The voice of the filmmaker's mother, Estelle, recounts the memories of the abortion procedure she received 50 years ago. This intimate experience testifies to the risks and confusion women faced at that time. Although the Super 8 footage capturing the city's street scenery may evoke images from typical family albums, those collection of images were created by the filmmaker, instead of the memory of her mother without visual images because she covered her eyes on the way to receive the surgery. The film slides between memory, archives, and reenactments, inviting different memories. [KIM Shinjae]
Courtney STEPHENSCourtney STEPHENS
A writer and director of non-fiction and experimental films. Her work has been exhibited at The National Gallery of Art, The Barbican, Walker Art Center, The Royal Geographical Society, and in film festivals including the Berlinale, the Viennale, and the New York Film Festival.