Episode 704: #FemalePleasure / Searching Eva
The Fog of Truth: Close-Up on Documentaries
Release Date: 10/16/2019
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info_outlineThis week, we welcome guest host Jennifer Proctor, filmmaker and Associate Professor of Journalism and Screen Studies at University of Michigan-Dearborn, for a robust discussion of the new documentary#FemalePleasure and its examination of female agency in the modern world. Following that group review, we play Chris’s interview with director Pia Hellenthal and writer Giorgia Malatrasi, co-creators of Searching Eva, a highly stylized portrait of feminist intellectual and sex worker Eva Collé. Join us as we follow women forging their own paths, patriarchy be damned.
Group Review Documentary:
#FEMALEPLEASURE (Barbara Miller, 2019)
Begins releasing in U.S. theaters on October 18
Film Featured in Interview Portion:
SEARCHING EVA (Pia Hellenthal, 2019)
Currently playing in festivals
Other Films and Sites Mentioned:
- Born into Brothels (Zana Briski/Ross Kauffman, 2005)
- CinemAbility (Jenni Gold, 2012)
- Detrás de la Realidad (SMU Meadows School of the Arts’ Ignite/Arts Dallas Initiative/The Community Action Network, a program of Bachman Lake Together/ The Meadows School’s Division of Film and Media Arts, 2019)
- EDIT Media
- Eva Collé’s Instagram
- Eva Collé’s Tumblr
- JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
- Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012)
- One of Us (Heidi Ewing/Rachel Grady, 2017)
Links to review and interview by Christopher Llewellyn Reed:
- Film Festival Today review of #FemalePleasure
- Film Festival Today interview with director Pia Hellenthal and writer Giorgia Malatrasi of Searching Eva
Timestamps:
- 00:37 – Intro
- 05:53 – Group Discussion of #FEMALE PLEASURE
- 21:53 – Chris interviews Pia Hellenthal and Giorgia Malatrasi of SEARCHING EVA
- 37:40 – Doc Talk
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Credits:
Artwork by Hilary Campbell
Intro music by Jeremiah Moore
Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst)
Editing and shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed