Dear all,
Please do join us on Thursday 20th of March for a new session of the series "Human Rights and Latin America. Films in Dialogue".
We will feature La teta asustada [The Milk of Sorrow] (2009), the awarded film by Claudia LLosa (Peru, 98 min.)
We are delighted to have Dr. Sara Barrow (University of Lincoln) as our invited speaker to discuss the film with the audience.
This is the link and details are pasted bellow: http://events.sas.ac.uk/ilas/events/view/15052
FREE ENTRANCE
Human Rights & Latin America: Films in Dialogue
20 March, 6 pm: La teta asustada [The Milk of Sorrow] (2009),
Dir. Claudia LLosa (Peru, 98 min.)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Sarah Barrow (University of Lincoln)
In Spanish (with English subtitles). Senate House. Free Entrance. All Welcome.
The Milk of Sorrow is an award-winning feature directorial debut that recounts the story of Fausta, a young Peruvian girl who has fallen ill with a rear disease transmitted through breast milk of woman abused during or soon after pregnancy. The film offers a critical and fictional approach on a still sensitive issue in contemporary Peruvian society, namely, the political violence that hunted the country in the last decades of the twentieth century. It does so by using an unusual metaphor to describe the sufferings of a new generation of woman wholiterally carry the effects of a painful period of the national history in their bodies. This original production combines an apparently simple plot line and aesthetics with complex issues such as the affective transmission of trauma, gender violence, bodily mourning and the skin of memory.
Dr. Sarah Barrow is Head of the School of Media at the University of Lincoln, UK, and was formerly Principal Lecturer in Film Studies and Head of Department at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. In the 1990s, she worked at the Cambridge Arts Cinema as one of the first venue-based film education officers, and while there set up a production company which focused on making films with under-privileged young people. She was one of the founding members of the Board of the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium, a film education initiative funded by the UK Film Council, and is committed to a range of media literacy and education projects in Lincoln and beyond. Her main research interest is in the development of Latin American cinemas.
The series Human Rights & Latin America: Films in Dialogue invites both the academic community and the general public to reflect on contemporary discourses of Human Rights in Latin America through the gaze of renowned filmmakers of the region. Some of the topics addressed are democracy, indigenous population, economical inequality, race, gender and sexual slavery. Each film will be introduced by a guest speaker and followed by an open debate with the audience.
Coordination and facilitation: Dr. Cecilia Sosa (University of East London/ Institute of Latin American Studies) and Dr. Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research).
20 March, 6 pm, Senate House, Chancellor’s Hall (1st floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Dr. J. Blejmar
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet St.
London WC1E 7HU.
Room ST 280 (Stewart House)
Tel: 020 7862 8964
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