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talk: “It came from within!” feminist takes on
14:30h technology and reproductive horror
- Alanna than, mcGill university
Today's world is a real life reproductive nightmare for women everywhere! As feminists push
back against new attempts to control women through controlling their reproductive
freedom, horror film holds up the speculum to the dangers, pleasures and potentials of new
reproductive technologies. This talk will be a graphically illustrated tour through the mutant
offspring, weaponized tools and evolutionary agendas of feminist reproductive horror films
that explore brave new worlds of reproductive technologies. From the Alien series through
Evolution and beyond, we'll look at the badass, broody bitches from post-pill cinema
through today.
Alanna Thain is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and World Cinemas at McGill
University in Montreal. She directs the Institute of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
and the Moving Image Research Laboratory (MIRL), devoted to the studies of bodies in
motion across forms of media. She is the author of Bodies in Time: Suspense, Affect, Cinema
(U. of Minnesota Press 2017). She is also a member of the Montreal Monstrum Society.
16h SHORTS PROGRAM 6: long in the tooth
We at Final Girls believe that older women deserve to be depicted in more diverse ways--
not just as kindly, gentle grandmother figures, but also as murderers, perverts, warriors, and
unexpected sources of horror. In each of these shorts, older women stand at the center,
fighting battles and raising hell.
i am albert (2:28)
Directed by Aurélia Raoull, France, 2018
A brother and sister give their grandmother a new dog for
Christmas to ease the passing of her last pup, but they don’t realize
that granny isn’t as sweet as she seems...
entropia (14:54)
Directed by Marinah Janello, US,
2018, German Premiere
Loneliness and an obsession
with vanity have pushed one
woman to take
unconventional measures to
find happiness. Symbols of
birth, death and rebirth grace
the film and asks the audience to
ponder the question: How far would
you go to turn back time?