Lyrical Vengeance
film screening followed by a conversation between wendelien van oldenborgh and Brigitta Isabella

Thursday, 15 August 2024
15:00 – 17:00
at Indonesian Visual Art Archive
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15:00 start film
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of girls (2023) by wendelien van oldenborgh – 43 min
Japanese with English subtitles
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Filmed in Tokyo and Yokohama, of girls brings a variety of contemporary voices in resonance with two distinct female voices from Japan’s literary and political past. Both popular authors of their time—the period from the late 1920s on—Fumiko Hayashi and Yuriko Miyamoto both died young, in 1951. They each had a strong feminist and class consciousness as well as an impressive literary voice, but came from very different backgrounds and expressed their ideals through different paths.
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16:00 conversation
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short presentation by wendelien about her film project: Lyrical Vengeance which follows of girls. The work draws a parallel between three historical female writers from Japan, the Netherlands and Indonesia who resisted dominant patriarchal and nationalist politics, and contemporary collective movements waging a similar struggle. The film focusses on transnational solidarity from a queer feminist perspective, and art, life, and activism as hopeful forms of transformation.

Film and discussion will be held in English.