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THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES at Cine-Rebis London

0	LONDON : The Horse Hospital
P	Saturday 16th November, 2013
N	2:00pm

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THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES
Dir: Irene Lusztig | USA, 2013 | 91 mins

ADVANCED, DISCOUNTED TICKETS £3.50 + BOOKING FEE
OR £5 ON THE DOOR.

Archival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES, a lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century that is by turns haunting, incisive, and wry. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational, industrial, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films) THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES inventively untangles the complex, sometimes surprising genealogies of maternal education.

THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES is a meditation on the maternal body as a site of institutional control, ideological surveillance, medical knowledge, and nationalist state intervention. Finally, the film works as a feminist recuperation of obsolete maternal histories, as a visual analysis of the persistent disciplining of the pregnant / labouring body, and as a new, contemporary counter-archive of women’s experiential narratives.

See full programme here: http://theundergroundfilmstudio.co.uk/cine-rebis/