Women Minor Speculations

Nicole Hewitt

camera and sound Ivan Slipčević

support Vida Guzmić

editing Hrvoslava Brkušić

mastering Hrvoje Nikšić

59’

16:9

Studio Pangolin 2021

 

Women Minor Speculations is shot on 35mm, 16mm, digital Bolex, Digital 8, mobile phones and still cameras with each medium carrying with it its own texture, its own discourse and levels of grain and tactility. In my attempt to rewrite a historical narrative I manipulate with the levels of authority of an image, trying to inscribe into each frame or sequence the possibility of another one, thinking about forms of representing the minor subject in history, in images and in collective memory in a particular geopolitical location and within a particular time frame. The film is accompanied by an original electronic soundtrack by the cinematographer Ivan Slipčević sourced through field recordings and processed, and fragments of a speculative fiction collated from the archaeological record, from notations of everyday life in the locations we filmed in or the archaeological digs we took part in and poetic fragments.

 

screener on request

 

• Subversive Film Festival 03-23/10/2021, premijera 10/10/2021
• Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe, 29/03/2022 Paris, The Film Gallery, Paris premiere (29/03/2022)
• South East European Film Festival – Los Angeles, 27/04 – 04/05/2022
• Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin, Paris, 02-08/05/2022, 03-04/05/2002 Beaux Arts Paris
• Days of Croatian Film/31. Dani hrvatskog filma 10-14/05/2022 (13/05/2022 – Best Experimental Film)
• Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berlin 16-21/08/2022, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (17/08/2022)
• Defy Film Festival, Nashville, 19-20/08/2022, viewing room installation
• Split Festival Novog Filma /International Festival of New Film Split, 01–09/09/2022
• Ecofilmfestival 02-04/09/2022 Mljet, Croatia
• Toronto International Women Film Festival, 20/09/2022- Best Experimental Film
• 25 FPS 22-24/09/2022
• Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, 21/10-30/10/2022
• FLIGHT/ Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova, non competitive section Visioni FLIGHT 28/10-01/11/2022
• The Amsterdam Lift-Off 2022 10/10-07/11/2022 online
• Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival 23-27/11/2022, official selection
• Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival, London 10-13/11/2022
• ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival November 25 to December 3, 2022
• Images Festival, Toronto, April 2023

 

 

Best Experimental Film, 31. Days of Croatian Film

Best Experimental Film, Toronto International Women Film Festival, 09/2022

Vedran Šamanović Award for most Innovative Croatian Film, 2022

Best Foreign Experimental Cinema Award, Berkeley Video and Film Festival 2022

Forum Lenteng Award Arkipel – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2022

Honorary Mention- Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival 2022