Cinema's First Nasty Women

'Cinema's First Nasty Women' are coming to Eye! Meet cinema’s first hard-boiled women on International Women’s Day. The ten films, made between 1903-1913, are mainly comedies with lead roles for defiant girls, rebellious kitchen maids, vengeful wives and militant suffragettes. Showing that cinematic heroines have not always been meek and beautiful.

The term 'Nasty Women' is derived from statements made by Donald Trump in relation to Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the US presidential elections. The term was then adopted as a nom de guerre by women. Cinema's First Nasty Women is an international project bringing together 99 early films from various film archives. These films are also being offered as a DVD/BluRay boxed set, scheduled for release in 2022.

Elif Rongen-Kaynakci, a curator with Eye and also one of the curators of this international project, will give a presentation to accompany the screenings. The films will also be accompanied by live music from Nora Mulder (piano). Four of the ten films selected are from the Eye collection.

Programme

Rosalie et Léontine vont au théâtre (FR 1911, 4')
(British Film Institute - BFI)
Laughing Gas (US 1907, 7')
(Blackhawk Films; Harvard Film Archive)
Victoire a ses nerfs (Nervous Kitchenmaid) (FR 1907, 3')
(British Film Institute - BFI)
Mary Jane’s Mishap (GB 1903, 4')
(British Film Institute - BFI)
La fureur de Mme Plumette (FR 1912, 6')
(Eye collection)
Cunegonde femme crampon (FR 1912, 9')
(Eye collection)
Patouillard a une femme jealouse (FR 1912, 6')
(Eye collection)
Menage dranem (FR 1913, 10')
(Gaumont Pathé Archives)
Lea sui pattini (IT 1911, 5')
(Eye collection)
Leontine s’envole (FR 1911, 6')
(Gaumont Pathé Archives)

This is part of

Eye Classics

Details

Production year

2022

Length

90 min.

Event language

Dutch

Moderator

Elif Rongen-Kaynakci

Country

Part of

Eye Classics

Eye’s collection includes a wealth of classics. With the Eye Classics series, Eye brings film history even closer. Every week, we screen at least three classics from the collection under one recognisable name: Eye Classics.

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