Women on Women
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: February 19, 2020, 19:00 – 21:00
Twenty-eight interviews with 29 film and literary documentarians working in the Czech Republic have been published in the volume Ženy o ženách (Women on Women). In the book, author Barbora Baronová explores her interviewees’ artistic motivations, how they select themes and their relationship to key aspects of documentary work, such as censorship, engagement and therapy. Last but not least, she discusses with her subjects the issues of gender, the role of institutions in documentary work and financing.
The book contains interviews with novelist Petra Dvořáková, Slovak filmmaker Zuzana Piussi, writer Alena Wagnerová, artist and personal development instructor Tereza Tara, history professor Dana Musilová, filmmaker Helena Třeštíková, art theorist Michaela Peško Banzetová, ethnographer Eleanore Rasmussen, activist and documentary filmmaker Apolena Rychlíková, documentary filmmaker Olga Sommerová, sociologist Marcela Linková, journalist and author Judita Matyášová, journalist and humanitarian worker Petra Procházková and more.
Bára Šichanová will host the evening and helm a talk with Barbora Baronová.