Event overview
Goldsmiths Literature Seminar
****PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF ROOM FOR THIS EVENT, WHICH WILL NOW TAKE PLACE IN RHB 137A****
Screening of Agnieszka Piotrowska's film followed by a Q&A session with the director.
MARRIED TO THE EIFFEL TOWER
‘Beautifully shot and fascinating - the film has reminded me why I like watching television.’ The Observer
Piotrowska's acclaimed film, which has been screened at numerous festivals and in more than 20 countries around the world, depicts the stories of women who love objects and not people. A film about tolerance and generosity and about the will to survive and seek love somewhere in the world, even when other people seem to offer nothing by hostility, Piotrowska's film deals with the complicated identities and intimate relationships of people who identify as "objectum sexuals." The film received a Special Prize at the Extraordinary Bodies Festival (2010).
Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska is an award winning documentary filmmaker and a theoretician. She has been nominated for 3 EMMY’s, as well as other international prizes such as, for example, the Best Film at the Fred Wiseman’s Master Class at the Dublin Film Festival for her film THE BIGAMISTS (2005). In the recent years she has been best known for her controversial film about women who fall in love with objects not people entitled MARRIED TO THE EIFFEL TOWER (2009) which has been shown in more than 40 countries both on television and at festivals. Her latest film The Engagement Party in Harare (2012) premiered at the International Images Film Festival for Women premiered in Harare, Zimbabwe in November 2012, achieving a Special Mention and a nomination for the Best Documentary Film. She has recently been awarded a PhD from the Psychosocial Department at Birkbeck, University of London. She is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at University of Bedfordshire and her book based on the PhD – Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film – is due to come out as a monograph with Routledge later this year.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Mar 2013 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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