Scuola Senza Fine
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Neubaugasse 40a, 1070 Vienna
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In 1976 a group of working class women meets in Affori, Milan and starts a course organised by a union, in order to finish their high school education. Most of the women decide to continue with the classes in a self-organised way after getting their high school diplomas. In 1979 the feminist filmmaker Adriana Monti joins the group and starts to work on a collective film project. In 1983 she finishes Scuola senza fine (School without end) (40 min), a film that looks at the women’s dreams, fears and struggles.
The talk will present the film in the context of two other examples of collective film making as a political strategy: In 1969 The Medvedkine Groups, a collective of factory workers and filmmakers, produce Classe de lutte (Struggle Class), a film about union activist Suzanne Zedet.
In 2003 the feminist collective Precarias a la deriva produces the video A la deriva por los circuitos de la precariedad femenina (Adrift through the circuits of feminized precarious work) which addresses the complex experiences and struggles of living women in precarious situations in Madrid.
Biographies
■ JULIA TIRLER is theoretician, writer and precarious worker based in Vienna. She has lived, studied and worked in Belgium, Italy, France and Austria in the fields of cultural mediation, cultural management, translation and cultural policy. Currently a PhD candidate at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, her theoretical and political interests include labour struggles, intersectional feminism, queer theory, visual cultural studies and critique of representation.