Hlasy žen: Austrálie (Women's Voices: Australia)

Authors: Barbora Baronová, Dita Pepe

The publication Hlasy žen: Austrálie is based on documentary material filmed during the research stay of the literary documentary film-maker Barbora Baronová at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. In five months, she conducted over twenty documentary interviews with prominent local artists, writers, film-makers, activists, photographers, scientists and journalists, exploring themes that are specific to women, regardless of the differences in their cultures - she asked about their position in society, expectations placed on them or the possibilities of their careers. The footage covers various aspects of the documentary profession, but also more general social issues, for example, the position of women in the contemporary Western world, influenced by the second wave of feminism in the 1970s.

Among the personalities who tell their story is the prominent feminist Anne Summers who describes her own abortion experience as one of the initiating moments of her activism. The anthropology professor Diane Bell tells the story of the fight for respect for women in science. Alison Whittaker's story is a narrative of the journey of a young Australian lesbian poet from regional rural communities to Harvard Law. The publisher Susan Hawthorne discusses her transition from an employee of the global publisher Penguin to a publisher of non-mainstream books. The story of Olga Horák and Halina Robinson reflects the theme of the Holocaust - while Olga survived five concentration camps, Halina let herself be thrown over the wall of the Warsaw ghetto and was on the run from the Nazis for eighteen months. All the women were portrayed by Dita Pepe.

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Authors: Barbora Baronová, Dita Pepe
Publisher: Wo-men
Language: Czech
Year of issue: 2021