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This film will be screened extra muros at Cinema RITCS.
In the presence of the director Laura Mulvey.
Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male fantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions but does not seek any concrete answers.
Laura Mulvey (1941) is a British film theorist and director. She is a graduate of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and currently teaches film and media studies at the University of London. Her major essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975), published in the British magazine Screen, played a leading role in introducing psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives into film theory. Mulvey made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen, including Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974) and Crystal Gazing (1984), as well as two films with Mark Lewis.