The Man Who Envied Women
Yvonne Rainer / US, 1985 / 125 min.
4K-restauration. Rainer dissects the male gaze, answering it with a provocative essay film replete with dry humour. Rainer follows the dissolution of a marriage between a conceited, womanising professor from Manhattan and his artist wife, who solely exists as a voiceover. Some free coffee and cherry pie will be served with the screening.
Seated in a chair facing the camera, Professor Jack Deller pontificates about women who are conspicuously absent from the film. On the soundtrack we hear their queries and comments, alternating between furious and laconic. The words spoken originate from film, quotidian culture, psychoanalytic and feminist theory.
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Director
Yvonne Rainer
Production year
1985
Country
US
Original title
The Man Who Envied Women
Length
125 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
Programmers of the Future 2023
This summer, three Programmers of the Future present their first film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum. Programmers Janilda Bartolomeu, Korée Wilrycx and Kseniia Bespalova are among the very first to take part in Eye’s talent development programme for future film programmers, set up in 2022. The programme will feature cinema from the African diaspora that counters the notion of a singular reality, female artists on masculinity and alternative visual geographies of the former Soviet Union.
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