2024-10-29
27 分钟We head to Rome to find out about a new film dedicated to the Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s before visiting one of the world’s largest contemporary art foundries in Walla Walla. Plus: an interview with French pop star Zaho de Sagazan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to Monocle on Culture with me, Robert Bound.
On today's program, we cross over multiple cultural delights.
First, we head to Rome for a new film dedicated to the women's liberation movement in the 1970s.
We're then in North America to look into one of the art world's unsung heroes.
And we return to London to speak to a French artist on tour in one of London's key music venues, following an amazing performance at the Paris Olympics closing ceremony.
Oh, yes, a few more stamps in our cultural passport.
That is all coming up right here on Monocle On Culture.
Now, working on a project in a team is always a challenge, but for one collective of directors, that was precisely the film's point.
Le Cose Infrantumi Luciano, or in English, things that Are shattered.
Shine tells the story of Gavreno Verrecchio, the first women only space in Italy.
Founded by the women's liberation movement in the 1970s, the documentary captures the importance of collaboration and community to the movement both then and now, by interweaving archive footage and contemporary interviews with women of all ages.
Marta Bossa and Sara Cecconi, who made the film alongside Carlotta Cosmay, Alice Malingri and Lillian Sassinelli, spoke with Monocle's Lily Austin after its premiere at this year's Rome Film Festival.
And Lilly began by asking why it was so important for the women's movement to occupy a physical space.
Many of them were listening to stories of violence, gender violence on women, and they decided that they really needed a place and a spot to have some time for them, like some real time, where also inside the political movement, from the left wing, they really needed to be separated from men and to finally like being in a place they could consider as their place.
So that's why they squatted this place where men were not allowed to enter.
And I think this has been a really turning point, a strong turning point for the feminist movement in Italy, at least since back then.
There were many issues connected probably also to the culture.
The patriarchy system was really strong and living in the families, it was really tough for women.
This was concerning the private space, but look at the public space.
It was for sure not a better situation, since law was pretty much hopeful back in the 70s for women in Italy.