Dear list members,
You are warmly invited to:
Reproduction on Film: Sex, Secrets and Lies
3 February - 20 March 2016, at the Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity
School, St Johns Street, Cambridge. All screenings at 7pm. All welcome.
Admission free.
Sexual secrets are powerful social capital, long subject to suppression,
cover up, rumour, manipulation, investigation and exposure. In all the
films in this fifth series of ‘Reproduction on Film’, lies, deceptions and
conspiracies are exposed with life-changing consequences for individuals,
groups or whole societies. Put on by the Generation to Reproduction
programme with funding from the Wellcome Trust.
Series devised by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). Full details and programme:
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/secrets <http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/secrets> To learn more
about the Generation to Reproduction project:
http://www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.uk
<http://www.reproduction.group.cam.ac.uk/>
Wednesday, 3 February: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of
Cherbourg)
Introduced and with discussion led by Isabelle McNeill (Trinity Hall,
Cambridge)
Director: Jacques Demy. Starring: Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo.
France/West Germany 1964. 91 mins.
An astonishingly beautiful and unusually operatic product of the French New
Wave, Jacques Demy’s sung-through musical romance made Catherine Deneuve a
star. It tells a bittersweet story of lovers separated by war, illegitimate
pregnancy, and the social and economic pressures to marry, though not
necessarily the one you love.
Co-presented by Alliance Française Cambridge. Free admission.
Wednesday, 10 February: Secrets and Lies
Introduced and with discussion led by Anandi Ramamurthy (Sheffield Hallam
University)
Director: Mike Leigh. Starring: Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
UK 1996. 142 mins.
Leigh’s emotionally rich social observation documents the subtleties of the
relationships in a dysfunctional family as its members’ secrets are
revealed. After her adoptive parents die, an upwardly mobile, young black
optometrist looks for her birth mother and discovers her to be working
class and white.
Wednesday, 9 March: Seksmisja (Sexmission)
Introduced and with discussion led by Stanley Bill (Polish Studies,
Cambridge), Jas Rainbow (Get Real) and Karolina Wigura (University of
Oxford).
Director: Juliusz Machulski. Starring: Jerzy Stuhr and Olgierd Łukaszewicz.
Poland 1984. 117 mins.
The classic Polish science fiction comedy and political satire that used
gender to critique communism. Two male scientists wake from a botched
experiment in frozen animation to find themselves prisoners in an
all-female dystopia.
A Science Festival event co-presented with Cambridge Polish Studies and
Polish Waves on Cambridge 105.
Monday 14 Mach: Prudence and the Pill Introduced and with discussion led by
Jessica Borge (Birkbeck, University of London).
Directors: Fielder Cook and Ronald Neame. Starring: Deborah Kerr and David
Niven. UK 1968. 92 mins.
Reconsider the role of ‘the pill’ in Britain’s sexual revolution. This
astonishing upstairs/downstairs comedy of errors is structured around oral
contraception mistaken for aspirin and vice versa. Based on a true rumour.
A Science Festival event.
Wednesday, 19 March: The Wicker Man
Introduced and with discussion led by Justin Smith (University of
Portsmouth).
Director: Robin Hardy. Starring: Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee. UK.
87 mins.
A chaste and devoutly Christian police sergeant from the mainland
investigates the disappearance of a missing girl on a remote Scottish
island. Pagan rituals of fertility entwine with free love, folk music and
something more sinister.
A Science Festival event.
Sunday 20 March: An Evening of Silent Shorts and Live Music
Introduced and with discussion led by Angela Saward (Wellcome Library), Tim
Boon (Science Museum) and David E. James (University of Southern
California)
Including Gestation of the Ovum (Friedrich Kopsch, Germany, 1924),
Childbirth as an Athletic Feat (Helen Rodway and Thorpe Coombe, UK, 1939),
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Breakage, US, 1959) and Fuses (Carolee
Schneemann, US, 1967).
A special evening of rarely screened silent films, medical and experimental
films about human sexuality and reproduction with live music accompaniment
by Robert Stallman (Canterbury Christ Church University). Warning: explicit
content.
A Science Festival event. Admission £5.
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