Film program: Landscapes of Resistance
Event status:
Film Program
- Date:
- Sunday 30 March 2025 02:00 pm until Sunday 30 March 2025 03:40 pm (Add to calendar)
- Contact:
- Amelia Wallin
a.wallin@latrobe.edu.au - Presented by:
- Amelia Wallin
- Type of Event:
- Exhibition
Join La Trobe Art Institute for a film screening program in our auditorium, featuring films that contextualise and extend the concerns of the exhibition, Storytelling Liberation. A different film will be screened each week across four Sundays during the exhibition run.
Landscapes of Resistance, Marta Popivoda (Dir.)95 mins. (2021)
Sunday March 30, 2 pm
The main character of Landscapes of Resistance, Sonja, was one of the first female partisans in Yugoslavia and helped lead the resistance in Auschwitz. For over 10 years, director Marta Popivoda and Sonja's granddaughter and co-author of the film, Ana Vujanovic, recorded their conversations with Sonja. These interviews are overlaid with footage of the landscapes and sites of her story. What starts off as a celebration of the resistance of one woman and her comrades gradually turns into a cinematic antifascist manifesto as the filmmakers become more and more confronted with the rise of fascism in Europe today.
This program accompanies Alex Martinis Roe’s exhibition Storytelling Liberation. Intended as invitation, resource and instrument, the exhibition seeks to foster international anti-colonial and feminist alliances by sharing tools for telling stories about social justice movements.
Storytelling Liberation was made in collaboration with Katerina Teaiwa, ASKI Contemporary Greek Social History Archives, Gladys Kalichini, Alexandra Juhasz, Andrea Ortega and Diana Betanzos.
