Red Emma
France2023fiction14'International Short Competition
In her miniature, filmmaker Macha Ovtchinnikova presents the viewers with a fragment of the biography of Emma Goldman, an activist, anarchist, philosopher and writer with an eventful life and radical views. The story begins on a theatre stage, thus taking place both in the past and the present. The boundaries are blurred on the content level, too - the most important words in the film refer to an essay written by Emma baack in 1906. Have the questions asked in the text on ‘the tragedy of women’s emancipation’ become outdated? Or are they as radical and urgent now as a century ago? What is the essence of women’s emancipation?
- directed by
- Macha OvtchinnikovaQ&A guest
Filmmaker, visual artist of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. Her work is inspired by the heroic and tragic stories that shaped her childhood: the struggle of the people in the socialist revolution and the tragedy of the Jews. She mixes a documentary approach, visual arts and fiction, creating a very powerful mise-en-scène. She is a professor of Contemporary Cinema history & aesthetics at the University of Strasbourg, France. Her filmography includes "The Scar of the Earth" (documentary essay, 11', 2020), "My Russian 90's" (documentary, 90', 2021).
- cinematography
- Alice Desplats
- script
- Macha Ovtchinnikova
- cast
- Salomé Richard, Grégoire Tachnakian, Caroline Corme
- music
- Frédérc Alvarez
- sound
- Gaël Eléon, Benjamin Viau
- editing
- Flore Guillet
- production
- Laure Dahout (TIRESIAS FILMS)
- Photo
