Writer in Residence
UK, 2011.
180 mins. English
Screenings and Workshops:
OPEN SHUTTERS IRAQ screening on Friday 23 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College
In Dec 2006, a group of women from 5 cities in Iraq – Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Kirkuk and Falluja – came to Damascus to take part in an extraordinary participatory photography project, called Open Shutters Iraq.
For a month, the women lived and worked together in a traditional courtyard house in the Old City in Damascus. There, the women, of different ages and social, religious and educational backgrounds, learned the basics of photographic practice, going out onto the streets of the Old City every other day to take pictures.
The film provides a collective portrait of the experience, thoughts and emotions of a group of Iraqi women at this singular time in their history and also explores the way in which people - traumatised, numbed and silenced - can sometimes confront and resist the ‘un-making’ of their world, and assert their sense of existence with an act of creative articulation.
Sunday 25 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College
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Funded by Cambridgeshire County Council, for the second year running, Cambridge Film Festival 2011 is proud to present a series of Film and Creative Writing Workshops with writer in-residence, Dr Jane Monson - a published writer and tutor.
Jane will lead creative writing workshops after selected screenings at the Arts Picturehouse throughout the Festival. All ages and levels are welcome and no experience of creative writing is necessary – just a passion for film and an interest in developing and learning how to use cinematic themes, images, and sounds as stimuli and material for new writing.
The focus this year is on women and film and is open to ALL. Using featured and short films from the Festival – directed by women exploring the relationship between art, film and gender – these three-hour workshops will offer a chance to view, discuss, create, and develop ideas and put them to paper.
OPEN SHUTTERS IRAQ screening on Friday 23 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College
In Dec 2006, a group of women from 5 cities in Iraq – Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Kirkuk and Falluja – came to Damascus to take part in an extraordinary participatory photography project, called Open Shutters Iraq.
For a month, the women lived and worked together in a traditional courtyard house in the Old City in Damascus. There, the women, of different ages and social, religious and educational backgrounds, learned the basics of photographic practice, going out onto the streets of the Old City every other day to take pictures.
The film provides a collective portrait of the experience, thoughts and emotions of a group of Iraqi women at this singular time in their history and also explores the way in which people - traumatised, numbed and silenced - can sometimes confront and resist the ‘un-making’ of their world, and assert their sense of existence with an act of creative articulation.
Sunday 25 September, 12.00 – 3.00pm, Buckingham House, Murray Edwards College
_______________________________________________________________________
Funded by Cambridgeshire County Council, for the second year running, Cambridge Film Festival 2011 is proud to present a series of Film and Creative Writing Workshops with writer in-residence, Dr Jane Monson - a published writer and tutor.
Jane will lead creative writing workshops after selected screenings at the Arts Picturehouse throughout the Festival. All ages and levels are welcome and no experience of creative writing is necessary – just a passion for film and an interest in developing and learning how to use cinematic themes, images, and sounds as stimuli and material for new writing.
The focus this year is on women and film and is open to ALL. Using featured and short films from the Festival – directed by women exploring the relationship between art, film and gender – these three-hour workshops will offer a chance to view, discuss, create, and develop ideas and put them to paper.
Screenings
Queens Theatre Emmanuel College
Tuesday 20 September, 12:00PM
Murray Edwards
Friday 23 September, 12:00PM
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