Good afternoon everyone,

How are you! I have some good links about women and films for you today. Let's get cracking.

We begin with Lisa Enroth, who was the sole attendee of the Gothengerg film festival. Just chilling on an island with a load of films.

She also agreed not to take her phone OR BOOKS so plenty of time to spend with movies/her own thoughts. I'm not sure how well I would have done with this but she seems ready for it here:

at Goteborg, the Nordic countries’ most important festival, organizers have made an unusual virtue of necessity. “So many people who have been home alone, unable to meet friends or family, have turned to cinema for company and comfort,” said the festival’s artistic director, Jonas Holmberg. “We wanted to experiment with that, to isolate that feeling, and take it to the extreme. So we thought, ‘Why don’t we isolate the person on a small island with nothing but films?’” […] Like health care workers everywhere, Enroth has found the past several months stressful. “Every day at the hospital we’ve been dealing with so much,” she said. “With all the patients, and all the new protocols, I’ve never felt so unisolated in my life.” So when she saw the video’s call for applications, she didn’t hesitate. “Alone in nature, on an island? Plus movies? I was like, ‘Yes, I need this.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/movies/gothenburg-film-festival-isolation.html

Here's an amazing film project by a woman, Véronique Aubouy. She is directing a complete read of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, getting normal people to read it aloud in different places where they are. Like an extremely long highbrow TikTok, I guess. Obviously I'm wildly into it:

Travelling from place to place, I read any books I could lay my hands on.  I discovered each country through the bias of its novels, its poems. I fantasised the whole journey at the same time as actually living it. It was a marvelous sensation. It was as if I passed by the characters I'd read in novels at every corner of the road. I followed the routes they dictated, choosing to visit villages that featured in books… I felt I was actually part of the stories. Reality and fiction seemed to fuse into one. It was also during that trip that I began reading A La Recherche du Temps Perdu.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/1026/1/take-part-in-veronique-aubouys-film-about-proust

You can see some of the films of the readings on the Proust Lu channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7c2G3X9AzYFnmv-MshzFew

I particularly like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkZbMaqq_A

Have a lovely weekend,

Alex xx.