My Name is Andrea + Discussion
The Rio Feminist Flm Programming Group is delighted to present a recent documentary from one of the UK’s most respected queer filmmakers, Pratibha Parmar, whose previous work includes the multi-award winning Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, Warrior Marks, A Place of Rage, and many groundbreaking experimental short films. Pratibha Parmar will be in conversation with feminist writer, curator and academic Lucy Reynolds following the screening. “MY NAME IS ANDREA is like no other- lyrical and journalistic, placed in time and also timeless. And now that Andrea Dworkin’s words are turning out to predict headlines, from Time’s Up! to the gender of terrorism, this film will illuminate what's going on and help us to know what to do.” Gloria Steinem Andrea Dworkin was a controversial feminist thinker, known to some as the personification of one side of the debates about pornography and female sexual freedom in the 1980s. As Parmar’s film reveals, this reductive characterisation is untrue and does a disservice to Dworkin herself and to feminism in general. Through Dworkin’s life and work, the film challenges us to rethink the hierarchies of domination and submission that infuse our sexual, social and economic relationships. Dworkin is played at different periods of her life by different actors, including Andrea Riseborough and Ashley Judd. The film covers many aspects that influenced her passionate dedication to female freedom, including her sexual assault while at the New York Women's House of Detention, her friendships with Catherine MacKinnon, Allen Ginsberg and John Stoltenberg, and her difficult family and personal relationships. Most importantly, though, it concentrates on her writing and her public appearances, immaculately researched and presented through rare archive footage. Content Guidance: Film contains strong references and discussions on violence and sexual abuse. The Rio feminist film programming group is Sarah Chorley, Selina Robertson and Helen de Witt. Inspired by the passionate feminist programming work that took place at the Rio in the 1980s by Rio Women’s Cinema and the Women’s Media Resource Project, we are reinstating feminist film screening and events that link the Rio’s feminist history with contemporary feminisms. Everyone is welcome!DocumentaryPT1H34M152025-03-09Amandla Stenberg
Soko
Andrea Riseborough
Ashley Judd
Christine Lahti
Pratibha Parmar
My Name is Andrea + Discussion"My Name is Andrea + Discussion"Showtimes
March 9, 2:00 pm
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